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Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Angel of the Night: André Berthomieu: Jean-Louis Barrault, Michèle Alfa, Henri Vidal: Romance [1]Behold Beatrice: Jean de Marguenat: Fernand Ledoux, Renée Faure, Jules Berry
Shortly after the failed 20 July plot to assassinate him in 1944, Adolf Hitler appoints General der Infanterie Dietrich von Choltitz as military governor of occupied Paris. . Hitler believes that Choltitz will obey his order that the Allies should not be allowed to capture Paris without the Germans destroying it completely, similarly to the planned destruction of War
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The "flag ticket" franc (French: Billet drapeau) was a currency issued by the United States for use in Allied-occupied France in the wake of the Battle of Normandy.With the swift take-over of sovereignty by General Charles de Gaulle, who considered the US occupation franc as "counterfeit money", the currency rapidly faded out of use in favour of the pre-war French franc.
The 1970s is a decade to be remembered both politically and cinematically. 1974, in particular, gave the world iconic slashers, pop samurai films, and psychedelic rock musicals, but also playful ...
When English painter George Hathaway drops off his friend Rhoda O'Donovan and her mother at the hotel where the Bartons are staying, he asks Johnny for change for a 100-franc note to pay a carriage driver. Johnny lends him 50 francs and gives him his name and room number when George insists on being able to pay him back.
Films of the 1950s were of a wide variety. As a result of the introduction of television, the studios and companies sought to put audiences back in theaters. They used more techniques in presenting their films through widescreen and big-approach methods, such as Cinemascope, VistaVision, and Cinerama, as well as gimmicks like 3-D film.
The Train is a 1964 war film directed by John Frankenheimer [1] and starring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau.The picture's screenplay—written by Franklin Coen, Frank Davis, and Walter Bernstein—is loosely based on the non-fiction book Le front de l'art by Rose Valland, who documented the works of art placed in storage that had been looted by Nazi Germany from museums and ...