The Last Metro

Infobox Film
name = The Last Metro


caption =
imdb_id = 0080610
writer = François Truffaut
Suzanne Schiffman
starring = Catherine Deneuve
Gérard Depardieu
Jean Poiret
Heinz Bennent
Andréa Ferréol| director = François Truffaut
producer = François Truffaut
cinematography = Néstor Almendros
distributor = United Artists Classics
released = flagicon|France 17 Sept. 1980
flagicon|USA 12 Oct. 1980
(N.Y. Film Festival)
runtime = 131 min.
language = French
music = Georges Delerue
awards =
budget =

"The Last Metro" (original French title: "Le Dernier Métro") is a 1980 film made by Les Films du Carrosse, written and directed by the French filmmaker François Truffaut, and starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu.

In 1981, the film won ten Césars for: best film, best actor (Depardieu), best actress (Deneuve), best cinematography, best director (Truffaut), best editing, best music, best production design, best sound and best writing. It received Best Foreign Film nominations in the Academy Awards and Golden Globes.

This film was one installment — dealing with theatre — of a trilogy on the entertainment world that Truffaut had planned. The installment that dealt with the film world was 1973's "La Nuit Américaine" ("Day for Night"). That film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Truffaut completed the screenplay for the third installment, "L'Agence Magique", which would have dealt with the world of Music hall. In the late 1970s he was close to beginning filming, but the failure of his film "The Green Room" forced him to look to a more commercial project, and he filmed "Love on the Run" instead.

Plot

Set during the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War, it tells the story of a Jewish theatre director and his Gentile wife, who struggles to keep him concealed from the Nazis in their cellar while she performs his former job. As in Truffaut's earlier film Jules et Jim, there is a love triangle between the three principal characters: Marion Steiner (Deneuve), her husband Lucas (Heinz Bennent) and Bernard Granger (Depardieu), an actor in the theatre's latest production.

Main cast

*Catherine Deneuve as Marion Steiner
*Gérard Depardieu as Bernard Granger
*Jean Poiret as Jean-Loup Cottins
*Andréa Ferréol as Arlette Guillaume
*Maurice Risch as Raymond Boursier
*Heinz Bennent as Lucas Steiner
*Jean-Pierre Klein as Christian Leglise
*Renata as Greta Borg
*László Szabó as Lieutnant Bergen
*Richard Bohringer as Gestapo Officer

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title=César Award for Best Film
years=1981
before="Tess"
after="Quest for Fire"