La Liberation de Paris

Infobox Film
name = La Libération de Paris
l'insurrection Nationale inséparable de la Libération Nationale


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caption = Titlescreen
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writer = Pierre Bost
narrator = Pierre Blanchar
starring = Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
Charles de Gaulle
Georges Bidault
Alexandre Parodi
Marie-Pierre Koenig
Alphonse Juin
Brigitte Servan Schreiber
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distributor = Le Comite de Liberation du Cinema Francais
France Libre Actualites
released = flagicon|France September 11944
runtime = 31:27 minutes
country = flagicon|France France
language = French
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"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. [ [http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&from=fulltext&full=lib%E9ration+de+paris&datedif_annee1=1944&num_notice=1&total_notices=20 Le Journal de la Résistance : La Libération de Paris, National Audiovisual Institute, September 1st, 1944] ]

Production

The French Cinema's Resistance Network ("Réseau de Résistance du Cinéma Français") was created in late 1940 following the Fall of France and the German occupation. [ [http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&from=fulltext&full=lib%E9ration+de+paris&datedif_annee1=1944&num_notice=1&total_notices=20 Le Journal de la Résistance : La Libération de Paris, National Audiovisual Institute, September 1st, 1944] ]

Between 1943-1944 the Resistance Network shot the life and combats of the Maquis du Vercors bessieged by Germans occupation troops and released it as a propaganda short documentary titled "In the heart of the Thunderstorm" ("Au cœur de l'Orage") directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois. [ [http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&from=fulltext&full=lib%E9ration+de+paris&datedif_annee1=1944&num_notice=1&total_notices=20 Le Journal de la Résistance : La Libération de Paris, National Audiovisual Institute, September 1st, 1944] ]

From August 16 to August 27 1944 during the battle for Paris, small units of the Resistance Network shot on location, developed and edited "l'insurrection Nationale inséparable de la Libération Nationale" ("the national insurrection inseparable from the national liberation") that would become "La Libération de Paris" ("the liberation of Paris") once released in theaters in the following days. [ [http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php?vue=notice&from=fulltext&full=lib%E9ration+de+paris&datedif_annee1=1944&num_notice=1&total_notices=20 Le Journal de la Résistance : La Libération de Paris, National Audiovisual Institute, September 1st, 1944] ]

Notes

ee also

* Liberation of Paris
* "In the heart of the thunderstorm" (1944)
* Is Paris Burning? (1966)

Media links

* [http://www.archive.org/details/LaLiberationdeParis1944 "La Libération de Paris"] , Archive.org