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Is Paris Burning? Overview:

Is Paris Burning? (1966) was a Drama - Historical Film directed by René Clément and produced by Paul Graetz.

Academy Awards 1966 --- Ceremony Number 39 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Art DirectionArt Direction: Willy Holt; Set Decoration: Marc Frederix, Pierre GuffroyNominated
Best CinematographyMarcel GrignonNominated
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IS PARIS BURNING? On Blu-ray From Kino

By Dan Day, Jr. on Aug 26, 2023 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

As a World War II buff, I've seen nearly every major film that revolves around a battle or campaign from that conflict. One WWII picture I had not yet seen was the 1966 French epic IS PARIS BURNING? Kino has just released a restored version of the film on Blu-ray.IS PARIS BURNING? is essentially a F... Read full article

Is Paris Burning? (1966)

By Beatrice on Jan 8, 2019 From Flickers in Time

Is Paris Burning? (Paris brûte-t-il?) Directed by Rene Clement Written by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola from a book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre 1966/France/US Marianne Productions/Transcontinental Films First viewing/Amazon Instant I prefer a little depth to go with my movie stars... Read full article

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The video game Sakura Wars 3 has a subtitle "Pari wa Moeteiru ka" which is from the Japanese language meaning 'Is Paris Burning?' whilst a level in the video-game Commandos 2: Men of Courage is also entitled 'Is Paris Burning?'
French actor Claude Rich actually plays two characters in this film. Rich plays the young Lt. Pierre de la Fouchardière and the mustached Gen. Henri Leclerc, de la Fouchardière's commander, but Rich is only credited for playing Leclerc. In real life, as a teenage boy during the Second World War, Rich was staring at some German soldiers in the street, and the real de la Fouchardière saved him from possible harm when he saw the boy in the street and got him to come into the building he was in and away from the Germans.
Apparently, at least in one version of this film, all of E.G. Marshall's scenes as Intelligence Officer Powell were cut out.
Every actor spoke their own language during filming, and thus the movie was originally intended as trilingual in French, German and English (with a bit of Swedish). However, no home video release has as of yet reproduced this, preferring instead to provide audio tracks fully dubbed into one language or another.
An article in the 7 November 1966 issue of 'Boxoffice' reported that four featurettes were made to promote the movie: "He Must Find There Nothing", in a 20-minute and a 10-minute version, a making of the production and how locations had to be modified to reflect the 1944 period; "Reality Must Not Be Left to Chance", 10-minute short behind the scenes; and a fourth featurette about composer Maurice Jarre.
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