Dir. Carl Dreyer, starring Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Anna Svierkier.
I felt a sudden urge to find another film made during WWII under German occupation, this time in Denmark, but Day of Wrath could not be more different than Les Enfants du Paradis.
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Les Enfants du Paradis / Children of Paradise (1945) dir. Marcel Carné, starring Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur. Another film shot in wartime, with a fascinating backstory. During the occupation of France, German authorities decided to keep the French film industry going, as a kind of public relations move, and many French films were produced during this period, under Nazi supervision. The Germans restricted subject matter and put limits on film length, which is why this three-hour epic is ostensibly broken into two parts – it was shot as two films, but has always been shown as one.
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Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolay Cherkasov. I thought I’d pick another film made as WWII was still raging. As the Axis forces were approaching Moscow, Sergei Eisenstein and many other Soviet filmmakers were evacuated to Alma Ata in the Kazakh Republic, where he came up with the plan to make a three-part film about the 16th century tsar who united Russia. With Stalin’s enthusiastic approval, the project launched into production at the Mosfilm studio in Alma Ata.
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