Is Paris Burning? (1966)

Directors

René Clément

Cast

Alain Delon, Anthony Perkins, Bernard Fresson, Billy Frick, Billy Kearns, Bruno Cremer, Charles Boyer, Claude Dauphin, Claude Rich, Claus Holm, Daniel Gélin, E. G. Marshall, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Félix Marten, George Chakiris, Georges Géret, Georges Staquet, Gert Fröbe, Glenn Ford, Günter Meisner, Hannes Messemer, Harry Meyen, Helmuth Schneider, Jean Négroni, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Joachim Hansen, Karl-Otto Alberty, Kirk Douglas, Konrad Georg, Leslie Caron, Marie Versini, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Etcheverry, Michel Piccoli, Orson Welles, Paul Crauchet, Pierre Collet, Pierre Dux, Pierre Vaneck, Robert Stack, Sacha Pitoëff, Serge Rousseau, Simone Signoret, Wolfgang Preiss, Yves Montand

The story

Shortly after the failed attempt to assassinate him in 1944, Adolf Hitler appoints General der Infanterie Dietrich von Choltitz as military governor of occupied Paris, believing he'll obey his order to destroy Paris if the Allies are ever in position to capture it. Two factions of the French Resistance react differently to news that the approaching Allied forces plan to bypass the city to avoid costly street-fighting. The Gaullists under Jacques Chaban-Delmas don't wish to risk revealing themselves, while the communists under Colonel Rol-Tanguy spark a general uprising by the citizens of Paris, occupying important government buildings and…

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