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La Libération de Paris
l'insurrection Nationale inséparable de la Libération Nationale
Titlescreen
Written byPierre Bost
StarringPhilippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
Charles de Gaulle
Georges Bidault
Alexandre Parodi
Marie-Pierre Koenig
Alphonse Juin
Brigitte Servan Schreiber
Narrated byPierre Blanchar
Distributed byLe Comite de Liberation du Cinema Francais
France Libre Actualites
Release date
France September 1, 1944
Running time
31:27 minutes
CountryFrance France
LanguageFrench

La Libération de Paris (The Liberation of Paris) is a short historical documentary shot in secret by small propaganda units of the French Resistance during the Battle for Paris in August 1944.[1]

Production

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Leclerc division Free French with U.S. uniforms and Thompson submachine gun, during the Battle for Paris.

In 1943, a group of French filmmakers which included Luis Daquin, Jean Grémillon, Jacques Becker, Pierre Renoir (Jean's brother} founded the Comité de libération du cinéma français. Technicians from this group took pictures of the uprising in Paris (Battle for Paris) from its beginnings on August 19, 1944. The footage was developed and edited for a documentary titled La Libération de Paris ("the liberation of Paris") which was released to French theaters on September 1, 1944, immediately after the German departure from the occupied territories.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Le Journal de la Résistance : La Libération de Paris, National Audiovisual Institute, September 1st, 1944
  2. ^ "The Triumph of Propaganda by Hilmar Hoffmann, John A. Broadwin, Volker Rolf Berghahn"". Retrieved 2009-08-05. {{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help)

See also