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Emmy-nominated director Jerry London ("Shōgun," "The Scarlet and the Black") is set to shoot the France-set feature film "The ...
Meanwhile, a French Resistance fighter (Burt Lancaster) fights to stop him. The sociopolitical issues are lost in the action, but it’s quite some action. With Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon.
In the vast landscape of war films, it's rare to find one that strikes a balance between subtlety and grandeur. Yet, Robert Bresson's 1956 French masterpiece A Man Escaped does just that - delivering ...
The World War 2 movie was set in August 1944 and followed French Resistance fighter Paul Labiche, played by Burt Lancaster, taking on Paul Scofield’s German Colonel Franz von Waldheim. Article ...
LOUIS — World War II films are a dime a dozen these days, ... a man who could ease minds and sweeten nights without his voice led the charge by joining the French Resistance.
"Nobody at the studios was interested in this story," director Norman Jewison says. Despite Jewison's track record -- he has five Oscar-nominated films under his belt, including the 1967 winner ...
The filmmaker Marcel Ophuls in an undated photo. His best-known film, “The Sorrow and the Pity,” exploded the myth of widespread French resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II.
The Martinez hotel’s rich history involving its starring role in the French Resistance during World War II is the subject of the new book, “The Hotel Martinez.” Corbis via Getty Images 10 ...
During World War II, he joined the French Resistance as a political activist with the then-underground MOI group. In 1943, he became a military chief in the armed organization of the communist ...
Uncover the quiet power of a WWII film that strips away the noise to reveal the raw essence of a daring escape and its ...