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La Marseillaise is a French film of 1938, directed by Jean Renoir. A vast political, social, and military panorama of the French Revolution up to the autumn of 1792, its many episodes range from the life of ordinary working people through the committed bourgeois struggling for change up to those in the upper echelons of society defending the status quo.
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Historical films, especially those with epic scope or ambitions, are seldom used for experimentation. Priorities of propaganda or commercial consideration often preclude filmmakers from trying things that are too different. One of the rare filmmakers that actually experimented with a historical epic is Jean Renoir, whose 1938 film *La Marseillaise* is considered one of his less successful works. The film deals with…More
