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1966
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 the Free French Forces during World War II. A French-American co-production, it was directed by French filmmaker René Clément, with a screenplay by Gore Vidal, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost and Claude Brulé, adapted from the 1965 book of the same title by Larry…
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The filmography of French director René Clément is inextricably tied to the Second World War, a conflict that provided the backdrop for some of his most celebrated works. His feature debut, the 1946 epic *Battle of the Rails*, was produced while the war still raged, capturing the urgency and chaos of the era. Among his subsequent films, none rival the scale or ambition of *Is Paris Burning?* (1966), a sprawling epic…More
