Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ Claude Jaeger n'April 2, 1917, na Geneva, Switzerland. Ọ malitere ọmụmụ ihe ya na Paris ma rụọ ọrụ nwa oge na Ministry of Finance, mana Agha Worldwa nke Abụọ kwụsịrị ya wee jee ozi na ndị agha France. Mgbe
Na 1940 nkwekọrịta agha na Nazi Germany, ọ sonyeere Kọmunist Party nke Spain (PCE) na aro nke Manuel Azcárate, onye Kọmunist Spanish nọ na mba ọzọ na France mgbe mmeri ndị Republican na Spanish Civil War. Mgbe nkwekọrịta ahụ dị n'etiti ndị Nazi na ndị Soviet tisasịrị, ndị Germany malitere ịchịkọta ndị Spain a chụpụrụ achụpụ nọ na France na 1941. Jaeger na ndị Kọmunist ndị ọzọ gbabara na "Zone libre" (mpaghara nweere onwe ya) n'akụkụ ndịda nke Vichy France na 1942. Ọ malitekwara ịchọpụta mmasị ya na ụlọ ọrụ ihe nkiri ma rụọ ọrụ dị ka onye enyemaka onye nduzi. Na "Zone Libre", Jaeger zutere Gillo Pontecorvo, onye na-eme ihe nkiri Italian na onye otu Kọmunist ibe ya, wee sonye na Italian Communist Party (PCI). Ka ọ na-erule 1943, Jaeger rụkwara ọrụ na ozi nke Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (FTP), ogwe aka ndị Kọmunist nke French Resistance. Aha nzuzo ya / aha njirimara ya bụ "Michelin" ma e nyere ya ọkwa nke onye isi, ma jee ozi na FTP ruo mgbe agha ahụ biri. Jaeger rụrụ ọrụ nwa oge n'okpuru ndị agha General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny na 1945 mgbe FTP jikọtara ya na ndị agha Free French. Mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị, ọ sonyeere (OPC), onye na-achịkwa ihe nkiri French, nke na-ewepụ ngwa ngwa Vichy ya site na ịgbanwe n'ime "Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée" (CPC) nke oge a na 1946. Ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye njikwa mmepụta ihe ebe ahụ ruo 1950, mgbe ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị ya mere ka a chụọ ya n'ọrụ. Ndị Kọmunist nke France (PCF) mere Jaeger onye isi nke Procinex, ụlọ ọrụ nke ga-emepụta obere fim maka ndị na-ege ntị aka ekpe na maka mmetụta Soviet. Ebe ọ bụ na ndị otu ndọrọndọrọ ọchịchị nyere ọrụ maka ihe nkiri ndị a, ha na-achọkarị ịbụ ndị agụmakwụkwọ, mmụọ nsọ, na / ma ọ bụ ụdị mgbasa ozi karịa ka ntụrụndụ dị ọcha.