History Film / IsParisBurning

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: To give the film a documentary/newsreel feel, just like ''Film/TheLongestDay''. It uses some actual footage too.

1966 war film directed by René Clément, based on a screenplay by Gore Vidal and FrancisFordCoppola, itself based on a book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. It depicts the events leading to the Liberation of Paris in August 1944.

1966 war film directed by René Clément, based on a screenplay by Gore Vidal and FrancisFordCoppola, itself based on a book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. It depicts the events of the Liberation of Paris in August 1944.

1966 war film directed by René Clément, based on a screenplay by Gore Vidal and FrancisFordCoppola, itself based on a book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. It depicts the Liberation of Paris in August 1944.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: To give the film a documentary/newsreel feel, just like ''Film/TheLongestDay''. It uses some actual footage too.

The title is AdolfHitler's question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl on the eve of the liberation of Paris (August 25): the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz (Gert Fröbe), had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall undamaged into the hands of the Allies.

The film looks not only at the taking of Paris by French and American troops but at rivalries within the Resistance. Of the two main sections, the branch loyal to General Charles de Gaulle was against an uprising by the Resistance while the branch linked to the communists, led by Henri Rol-Tanguy (Bruno Cremer), believed action was necessary. De Gaulle tried to overcome communist influence during and after Liberation, believing the communists planned to take control of the city and then of France.

The title is AdolfHitler's question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl on the eve of the liberation of Paris (August 25): the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz (Gert Fröbe), had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall undamaged into the hands of the Allies, but von Choltitz disobeyed.

1966 war film directed by René Clément, based on a screenplay by Gore Vidal and FrancisFordCoppola. It depicts the Liberation of Paris in August 1944.

1966 war film directed by René Clément. It depicts the Liberation of Paris in August 1944.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/TheLongestDay''.

* AllStarCast: Big time. It stars Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Gert Fröbe, OrsonWelles, Anthony Perkins, Robert Stack and a good bunch of well known French actors of the time, including Charles Boyer, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Yves Montand, Leslie Caron, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Simone Signoret, Claude Rich, Bruno Cremer, Alain Delon, Sacha Pitoëff and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

The title is AdolfHitler's question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl on the eve of the liberation of Paris (August 25): the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall undamaged into the hands of the Allies, but von Choltitz disobeyed.

The film follows historical events as U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, head of the Allied invasion, refuses to divert troops to liberate Paris. His hand is forced by the French military leader, Philippe Leclerc, and by a Resistance uprising in the city. Von Choltitz keeps details of the uprising from the German high command in an effort to save the city being destroyed in retaliation. The film follows his turmoil as a soldier and as the man who doesn't wish to be seen by history as the cause of a beautiful city's destruction. In this he is helped by the intervention of the Swedish consul, Raoul Nordling.

The film looks not only at the taking of Paris by French and American troops but at rivalries within the Resistance. Of the two main sections, the branch loyal to General Charles de Gaulle was against an uprising by the Resistance while the branch linked to the communists, led by Henri Rol-Tanguy, believed action was necessary. De Gaulle tried to overcome communist influence during and after Liberation, believing the communists planned to take control of the city and then of France.

* AllStarCast: Big time. It stars Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Gert Fröbe, OrsonWelles, Anthony Perkins, Robert Stack and a good bunch of well known French actors of the time, including Charles Boyer, Yves Montand, Leslie Caron, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Simone Signoret, Claude Rich, Bruno Cremer, Alain Delon, Sacha Pitoëff and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Hitler orders ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' to destroy Paris.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Hitler orders ''Film/Goldfinger'' to destroy Paris.

* HeyItsThatGuy

The title is Adolf Hitler's question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl on the eve of the liberation of Paris (August 25): the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall undamaged into the hands of the Allies, but von Choltitz disobeyed.

* AllStarCast: Big time. It stars Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Gert Fröbe, Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Robert Stack and a good bunch of well known French actors of the time, including Charles Boyer, Yves Montand, Leslie Caron, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Simone Signoret, Claude Rich, Bruno Cremer, Alain Delon, Sacha Pitoëff and Jean-Louis Trintignant.

1966 war film depicting the Liberation of Paris in August 1944.

* LaRésistance: Naturally.

* AllStarCast: Big time. It stars Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Gert Fröbe, Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Robert Stack and a good bunch of well known French ators of the time, including Charles Boyer, Yves Montand, Leslie Caron, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Simone Signoret, Claude Rich, Bruno Cremer and Alain Delon.