Is Paris Burning?( 1966)

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"Burn Paris!" was the order that had come shrieking over the phone.

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Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.

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Jean-Paul Belmondo
Yvon Morandat
Charles Boyer
Docteur Monod
Leslie Caron
Françoise Labé
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Lt. Henri Karcher
George Chakiris
GI in Tank
Bruno Cremer
Colonel Rol Tanguy
Claude Dauphin
Colonel Lebel
Alain Delon
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Kirk Douglas
General Patton
Pierre Dux
Cerat - Alexandre Parodi
Glenn Ford
Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley
Gert Fröbe
Von Choltitz
Daniel Gélin
Yves Bayet
Georges Géret
The Baker
Hannes Messemer
General Jodl
Harry Meyen
Lieutenant von Arnim
Yves Montand
Sgt. Marcel Bizien
Anthony Perkins
Sgt. Warren
Michel Piccoli
Edgar Pisani
Wolfgang Preiss
Capitaine Ebernach
Claude Rich
General Leclerc/Lieutenant Pierre de la Fouchardière
Robert Stack
General Sibert
Simone Signoret
Cafe Owner
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Capitaine Serge
Pierre Vaneck
Maj. Roger Gallois
Marie Versini
Claire Morandat
Skip Ward
Charlie, un soldat U.S.
Orson Welles
Konsul Nordling
Michel Etcheverry
Préfet Luizet
Billy Frick
Adolf Hitler
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
General von Voineburg
Konrad Georg
Gen. Field Marshal Model
Joachim Hansen
Commandant prison de Fresnes
Félix Marten
Georges Landrieu
Paloma Matta
Lilane Charvet, la jeune mariée
Günter Meisner
SS Commandant Pantin
Sacha Pitoëff
Joliot-Curie
Albert Rémy
Policeman / Le gendarme
Christian Rode
Soldat allemand brûlé
Helmuth Schneider
Adjudant allemand métro
Otto Stern
Soldat allemand métro
Tony Taffin
Bernard Labé
Jean Valmont
F.F.I. bazooka
Karl-Otto Alberty
SS - tapisserie de Bayeux
Pierre Collet
Un policier résistant
Paul Crauchet
Priest
Germaine de France
Old lady
Bernard Fresson
Agent de liaison F.F.I.
Michel Gonzalès
Étudiant résistant
Peter Jacob
Génaral Burgdorf / Gen. Burgdorf
Hubert de Lapparent
L'huissier à Matignon
Roger Lumont
Jade Amicol
Pierre Mirat
Patron du bistro Medicis
Francis Nani
Étudiant resistant
Peter Neusser
SS - tapisserie de Bayeux
Sébastien Poitrenaud
Étudiant resistant
Jean-Michel Rouzière
Le monsieur au petit chien
Georges Staquet
Capitaine Dronne
Hénia Suchar
La standardiste de la préfecture
Claude Vernier
Prisonnier allemand
Georges Claisse
Intern with Monod (uncredited)
Suzy Delair
Une Parisienne (uncredited)
Patrick Dewaere
A young resister (uncredited)
André Falcon
Member of Resistance council (uncredited)
Michel Fugain
A young resistant (uncredited)
Jeanne Herviale
Bit part (uncredited)
Michael Lonsdale
Debu-Bridel (uncredited)
Jacques Léonard
American soldier (uncredited)
Maria Machado
Stella (uncredited)
E.G. Marshall
Intelligence Officer Powell (uncredited)
Mike Marshall
F.F.I. member (uncredited)
Georges Poujouly
Landrieux (uncredited)
Serge Rousseau
Col. Fabien (uncredited)
Cécile Vassort
Une jeune femme (uncredited)
Michel Sardou
un résistant (uncredited)
Albert Augier
Général Leclerc (voice)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Jun 18 2023

With the Allies rapidly approaching Paris, the general in charge of the city is issued with orders by his Führer to prepare plans to destroy the city. Fortunately, von Choltitz (Gert Fröbe) is not convinced that in the face of imminent defeat, this is the right thing to do - so he obeys, but in a rather lacklustre and half-hearted fashion. Meantime, scenting victory, the resistance are starting to make their own plans to seize control of increasingly larger parts of the city ready for the arrival of George Patton's American troops. René Clément has assembled a pretty stellar cast here with Jean...