The Battle of the Rails
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| La Bataille du rail | |
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| Directed by | René Clément |
| Written by | René Clément |
| Starring | Marcel Barnault Jean Clarieux |
| Cinematography | Henri Alekan |
| Distributed by | Burstyn-Mayer Inc. (US) |
Release dates | 27 February 1946 (France) 26 December 1949 (NYC) |
Running time | 85 minutes |
| Language | French |
The Battle of the Rails (Template:Lang-fr) is a 1946 war movie directed by René Clément which depicts the efforts by railway workers in the French Resistance to sabotage German military transport trains during WWII, particularly during the Invasion of Normandy by Allied forces.[1]
The film was shown at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prix international du jury and Clément won the Best Director Award. The film also won the inaugural Prix Méliès. The film was distributed in the U.S. by Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn.
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- ^ Zaretsky, Robert (4 April 2018). "Macron's Been Working on the Railroad". Foreign Policy.
René Clément's classic 1946 film The Battle of the Rails suggests wartime life expectancy of cheminots was even lower — at least among those who sought to sabotage the Nazi war machine in France.
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