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La Marseillaise is a French film of 1938, directed by Jean Renoir.A vast political, social, and military panorama of the French Revolution up to the autumn of 1792, its many episodes range from the life of ordinary working people through the committed bourgeois struggling for change up to those in the upper echelons of society defending the status quo.
"La Marseillaise" [a] is the national anthem of France. It was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg after the declaration of war by the First French Republic against Austria , and was originally titled " Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin ".
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La mort de Danton: Claude Barma Based on the play Danton's Death. Georges Danton: 1973 United States The Man of Destiny: Joseph Hardy Comedy. 1975 France Saint-Just and the Force of Things: Saint-Just et la Force des choses: Pierre Cardinal: Biography, Drama, History. Based on a novel Saint-Just et la Force des choses. Louis Antoine de Saint ...
She would appear in 20 more films, mainly French, including La Parisienne (1957), with Brigitte Bardot as the star, as well as in Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963). Lebeau's last two films were Spanish productions in 1965. [5] In 1988, she married her third husband, Italian screenwriter Tullio Pinelli who had contributed to the script of 8½. [3]
The film features Gance's interpretation of the birth of the song "La Marseillaise", the national anthem of France. In the film, the French singer Maryse Damia portrays the spirit of the song. "La Marseillaise" is played by the orchestra repeatedly during a scene at the Club of the Cordeliers, and again at other points in the plot.
The author of the original words "Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira" was a former soldier by the name of Ladré who made a living as a street singer.The music is a popular contredanse air called "Le carillon national", and was composed by Jean-Antoine Bécourt [], a violinist (according to other sources: side drum player) of the théâtre Beaujolais.
La Marseillaise, a depiction of La Marseillaise on the Arc de Triomphe; La Marseillaise (skyscraper), an office skyscraper in Marseille; La Marseillaise des Blancs, a royalist and Catholic adaptation of the anthem; La marseillaise de la Commune, a version of La Marseillaise that was created and used by the Paris Commune in 1871; French cruiser ...