La Liberation de Paris (1944)
Also known as The Liberation of Paris
1944 · Short film · 31 min · dir. André Zwobada
- Documentary
Synopsis
French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- André Zwobada
- Writer
- Pierre Bost
- Cinematography
- Philippe Agostini
- Studio
- France Libre Actualité, Comité de libération du cinéma français
- Released
- 1944-08-26
- Original title
- La Libération de Paris
- Running time
- 31 minutes
Cast & crew
André Zwobada Director
Charles de Gaulle- Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
- Pierre Koenig
- Brigitte Servan Schreiber
Pierre Blanchar
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Paris - free again ! · oscar100 · 2008-04-22
And so, Paris became a free city again on 25 August 1944. Paris had showed its strength many times earlier, in 1830, 1848 and in 1870. Building barricades and fighting the invading troops was no less than a tradition. The many fighting situations, both with and without the supporting French Second Exile Army together with American units, show the fierceness and the bloody endings for many of the humans involved. There are glimpses of Allied tanks, proceeding directly into Hitler´s last counterstrike - the Battle of the Bulge, in the Ardennes during the winter of 1944. This film was shown in…
★★★★ · Copyright Status for this film? Contact info for ina.Fr · rsegal64@gmail.com · 2012-04-03
Enjoyed this film and wish to license clips for a documentary about an American Army camera operator who was is alive and was present at 'La Liberacion'. There is a 'bug' on the footage that says 'ina.FR' - which as far as I can tell means a large French cultural archive. The meta-data provided contradicts the statement on the first page that the material is 'public domain'. Does anyone know which part of INA to contact for rights clearance? So far they have passed me from one office to another by email
