The Last Metro (Le Dernier metro)
The Last Metro is set virtually in its entirety in a crumbling French theatre. During the Nazi occupation, Jewish director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent) hides in the basement of the theatre, while his wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) stars in its latest production. Marion is enamored of leading man Bernard Granger (Gerard Depardieu), and he with her, but they resist temptation out of respect to her husband. When she is given a choice between loyalty to her husband and to her countrymen, her dilemma offers two logical solutions--both of which are acted out on stage during the play. This Pirandellian ending aside, The Last Metro is one of the few films to accurately capture the feeling of what it was like to live in Paris under the thumb of the Nazis.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
GENRE: Drama, Romance, War
MPAA RATING:
PG
RUN TIME: 2h 13m
RELEASE DATE: January 01, 1980
STARRING: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Heinz Bennent, Laszlo Szabo (I)
DIRECTOR(S): François Truffaut
PRODUCER(S): François Truffaut
WRITER(S): Jean-Claude Grumberg, Suzanne Schiffman, François Truffaut
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