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Mysteries in the Archives: 1944 De Gaulle in Liberated Paris
200725 min 56 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Serge Viallet
Production: Florence Fanelli
Co-produced by ARTE France and Institut national de l'audiovisuel with the participation of Centre National de la Cinématographie, in association with YLE Teema - Ritva Leino and RTSI-Televisione Svizzera, and with the participation of the National Film Board of Canada.
This title is an acquisition.
In the early afternoon of August 26 1944, General Charles de Gaulle strides gallantly down the celebrated Avenue des Champs Elysées. Arriving in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, shots ring out. Renowned cameraman Gaston Madru filmed several minutes of the fire fight in front of Notre Dame, but most of his footage was long forgotten, or lost. How could that have happened? What does his footage reveal of the gun fire – as well as other moments during that famous day?
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Subject categories
- History > Historical PerpectivesWorld History
Credits
- idea
- Serge Viallet
- Cédric Lépée
- series director
- Serge Viallet
- director
- Serge Viallet
- editor
- Alexandre Auque
- assistant editor
- Vanessa Bozza
- graphic design
- Stéphanie Mée
- Jean-Michel Moussu
- historical research
- Cedric Gruat
- musical illustration
- Niels Poux
- credit sequence design
- Philippe Truffault
- credit sequence production
- Philippe Truffault
- credit sequence editor
- François Labat
- translator
- Dana Burns Westberg
- narrator
- Dana Burns Westberg
- documentary research
- Marie Bessi
- sound design
- Francisco Camino
- Laurent Thomas
- Myriam René
- Jean-François Gasnier
- mix
- Francisco Camino
- Laurent Thomas
- Myriam René
- Jean-François Gasnier
- colour correction
- Rémi Berge
- administrator
- Yasmine Boucherat
- production manager
- Michèle Léveillé
- Thierry Ippolito
- production assistant
- Chantal Lesieur
- Vincent Encontre
- Armelle Jayet
- commissioning editor
- Elisabeth Hulten
- producer
- Florence Fanelli