Is Paris Burning?

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Is Paris Burning?

Original movie poster
Directed by René Clément
Produced by Paul Graetz
Written by Gore Vidal
Francis Ford Coppola
Starring Kirk Douglas
Glenn Ford
Gert Fröbe
Yves Montand
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Robert Stack
Music by Maurice Jarre
Cinematography Marcel Grignon
Editing by Robert Lawrence
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) Flag of France 26 October 1966
Flag of the United States 10 November 1966
Running time 173 min
Country France
USA
Language French
English
IMDb profile

Is Paris Burning? (French: Paris brûle-t-il ?) is a 1966 Franco-American film dealing with the 1944 liberation of Paris by rival branches of the French Resistance (communist and gaullist) and the Free French Forces.

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The title is Hitler's question to his chief of staff Alfred Jodl on the eve of the liberation of Paris (August 25): the military governor of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, had been ordered to destroy Paris rather than let it fall undamaged into the hands of the Allies, but General von Choltitz explicitly disobeyed that order.

It is based on a best-selling book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre and was directed by René Clément, from a screenplay by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola.

The film stars, among others, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Gert Fröbe, Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Robert Stack, Charles Boyer, Yves Montand, Leslie Caron, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Simone Signoret and Alain Delon.

Box office receipts for the film were disappointing, perhaps because the film is very difficult to follow without a fairly detailed knowledge of the backstory. The scenes showing the infighting among the various factions of the French Resistance are especially likely to baffle the casual viewer.

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