The Last Metro
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| Directed by | François Truffaut |
| Produced by | François Truffaut |
| Written by | François Truffaut Suzanne Schiffman |
| Starring | Catherine Deneuve Gérard Depardieu Jean Poiret Heinz Bennent Andréa Ferréol |
| Music by | Georges Delerue |
| Cinematography | Néstor Almendros |
| Distributed by | United Artists Classics |
| Release date(s) |  17 Sept. 1980 12 Oct. 1980(N.Y. Film Festival) |
| Running time | 131 min. |
| Language | French |
The Last Metro (original French title: Le Dernier Métro) is a 1980 film made by Les Films du Carrosse, written and directed by the French filmmaker François Truffaut, and starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu.[1]
In 1981, the film won ten Césars for: best film, best actor (Depardieu), best actress (Deneuve), best cinematography, best director (Truffaut), best editing, best music, best production design, best sound and best writing.[1][2] It received Best Foreign Film nominations in the Academy Awards[3] and Golden Globes.[4]
This film was one installment—dealing with theatre—of a trilogy on the entertainment world that Truffaut had planned.[5] The installment that dealt with the film world was 1973's La Nuit Américaine (Day for Night),[5] which had been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Truffaut completed the screenplay for the third installment, L'Agence Magique, which would have dealt with the world of music hall.[5] In the late 1970s he was close to beginning filming, but the failure of his film The Green Room forced him to look to a more commercial project, and he filmed Love on the Run instead.
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Plot
Set during the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War, it tells the story of a Jewish theatre director and his Gentile wife, who struggles to keep him concealed from the Nazis in their cellar while she performs his former job.[1] As in Truffaut's earlier film Jules et Jim, there is a love triangle between the three principal characters: Marion Steiner (Deneuve), her husband Lucas (Heinz Bennent) and Bernard Granger (Depardieu), an actor in the theatre's latest production.[1]
Main cast
- Catherine Deneuve as Marion Steiner
- Gérard Depardieu as Bernard Granger
- Jean Poiret as Jean-Loup Cottins
- Andréa Ferréol as Arlette Guillaume
- Maurice Risch as Raymond Boursier
- Heinz Bennent as Lucas Steiner
- Jean-Pierre Klein as Christian Leglise
- Renata as Greta Borg
- László Szabó as Lieutnant Bergen
- Richard Bohringer as Gestapo Officer
References
- ^ a b c d Lanzoni, Rémi Fournier (2002). French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present. Continuum, pp.314-315. ISBN 9780826416001.
- ^ "Palmares". Académie des César. Retrieved on 19 November 2008.
- ^ "Foreign Language Film (1980)". Academy Awards Database. Retrieved on 19 November.
- ^ "Golden Globes, USA: 1981". IMDB. Retrieved on 19 November 2008.
- ^ a b c Higgins, Lynn A. (1998). New Novel, New Wave, New Politics. University of Nebraska Press, p.150. ISBN 9780803273092.
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| Preceded by Tess |
César Award for Best Film 1981 |
Succeeded by Quest for Fire |
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