Directed by:
François TruffautCinematography:
Néstor AlmendrosComposer:
Georges DelerueCast:
Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Heinz Bennent, Andréa Ferréol, Jean-Louis Richard, Paulette Dubost, Alain Tasma, Richard Bohringer (more)VOD (5)
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Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living under the German occupation during World War II in François Truffaut’s gripping, humanist character study. Against all odds a Jewish theater manager in hiding; a leading man who’s in the Resistance; increasingly restrictive Nazi oversight the troupe believes the show must go on. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Catherine Deneuve
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Gérard Depardieu
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Jean Poiret
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Heinz Bennent
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Andréa Ferréol
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Jean-Louis Richard
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Paulette Dubost
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Richard Bohringer
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Maurice Risch
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Christian Baltauss
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Pierre Belot
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