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Is Paris Burning?
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Description of this Poster Is Paris Burning
Is Paris burning? is a 1966 black-and-white epic war film about the liberation of Paris in August 1944 by the French Resistance and Free French Forces during World War II. A Franco-American co-production, the film was directed by French filmmaker René Clément, on a screenplay by Gore Vidal, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost and Claude Brulé, adapted from the book of the same title published in 1965 by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. The film is performed by an international cast including French stars (Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Vaneck, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Yves Montand), American (Orson Welles, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Robert Stack, Anthony Perkins, George Chakiris) and German (Gert Fröbe, Hannes Messemer, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Harry Meyen, Wolfgang Preiss).
The film was released in France on October 26, 1966 and in the United States on November 10, 1966. It received generally positive reviews and was the fourth most popular film of 1966 in France. It was nominated for Best Cinematography (Black and White) and the Academy Award for Best Art Direction at the 40th Academy Awards, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
Shortly after the failed July 20 plot to assassinate him in 1944, Adolf Hitler appointed Infantry General Dietrich von Choltitz as military governor of occupied Paris. Hitler believes that Choltitz will obey his order not to let the Allies capture Paris without the Germans completely destroying it, similar to the planned destruction of Warsaw.
The French Resistance learns that the Allies do not intend to take Paris, but that they are bypassing it to avoid confrontation and heading directly towards Germany. The two factions of the Resistance react differently to this news. The Gaullists of Jacques Chaban-Delmas want to wait and see, while the Communists of Colonel Rol-Tanguy want to act. The Communists force the issue by calling for a general uprising of the citizens of Paris and by occupying important government buildings. The Gaullists rallied behind this action plan once it was implemented.
At first, Choltitz intends to follow Hitler's order to raze the city. After his troops failed to dislodge the Resistance from the Paris police headquarters, he ordered the Luftwaffe to bomb the building, but withdrew his order at the request of Swedish consul Raoul Nordling, who pointed out that the bombs missed the prefecture. risk destroying neighboring buildings of inestimable cultural value, such as Notre-Dame Cathedral. Choltitz accepts the Resistance's offer of a truce (designed by the Gaullist faction), but the communists want to continue fighting, despite the lack of ammunition. The truce is therefore reduced to one day and the fighting resumes.
After learning that the Germans plan to destroy Paris (the Eiffel Tower and other monuments are booby-trapped with explosives), a Resistance messenger is sent across enemy lines to contact the Americans. He informs the Allies that the Resistance has already taken control of certain areas of the city and implores them to support them to prevent the uprising from being crushed as was the case in Warsaw. He adds that France would never forgive the Allies for allowing the destruction of Paris. Later, General Omar Bradley accepts that General Philippe Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division attack Paris.
As the German military situation deteriorates, Choltitz delays the order to destroy Paris, believing that Hitler is mad and the war is lost, making the destruction of Paris a futile gesture. When two SS officers arrive, he thinks he is going to be arrested, but instead they simply state that Himmler asked them to save the Bayeux Tapestry for his private collection before the Louvre was destroyed.
Eventually, the French major persuades General Leclerc that it is essential that at least a token force of Allied tanks enter and occupy Paris, because this symbolic gesture will save the city. A line of Sherman tanks sets off. Although the equipment was American, they allowed the Free French Army to control them with only a small American escort. As the line reached 50 km from Paris, German troops placed explosives in the Eiffel Tower and under various bridges. The Germans freed some of the imprisoned men to help them defend their strongpoints. The first Sherman arrives and is hit by an artillery shell, but the other tanks, each named after a French victory in World War I, reach City Hall.
Choltitz chose not to give the detonation order and to surrender shortly after the Allies entered the city. He telephones the German high command to ask that his family not suffer from his inaction. Meanwhile, some officers continue to plant explosives. Two officers discuss while laying mines on Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides.
There are deaths on both sides, but civilians begin to join the battle. The fighting reached Rue de Rivoli, where the Germans had their headquarters at the Hôtel Meurice. As Allied soldiers enter his office, Choltitz asks to be allowed to surrender to an officer. He was asked to order some of his officers to circulate with the Free French while displaying a white flag to transmit the order of surrender to his troops.
French tanks reach Notre-Dame Cathedral and reactivate the bells after years of silence. The crowd applauds and sings “La Marseillaise”. Actual documentary footage of the liberation crowds is projected. As the Free French forces and De Gaulle parade through the streets of Paris, greeted by jubilant crowds, we see a telephone receiver on which a voice in German repeatedly asks: "Is Paris burning?" From the air, we see Paris with its buildings intact, then we switch from black and white to color for the end credits.
