Is Paris Burning? (1966)

August 1944. With the invasion of Europe well underway and Germany in retreat, the Allied forces are poised to take the French capital. General Von Choltitz receives a direct order from Hitler that if he cannot hold Paris he must destroy it, completely. After a group of students serving in the French resistance are massacred, Colonel Tanguy incites the public to turn on the occupying Nazis. Reluctantly, Von Choltitz gives the order for bombs to be placed at strategic points in the city, sufficient to decimate all its historical monuments and most of the population...

Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer (I), Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel, George Chakiris
Director: René Clément

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