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‘Son of Saul' Director László Nemes Sets Biopic of French Resistance Hero Jean Moulin With Gilles Lellouche and Lars Eidinger to Star; 193 Launching Sales in Cannes

Lazlo Nemes, the Hungarian filmmaker whose harrowing Holocaust drama "Son of Saul" won the Oscar for best international feature in 2016, is returning to WWII for his latest movie. "Moulin" is set to ...
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Gilles Lellouche & Lars Eidinger To Star In WWII Resistance Movie ‘Moulin’ For Director Laszlo Nemes & ‘La Vie En Rose’ Producer Alain Goldman — Cannes Market

Patrick Wachsberger and Legendary’s JV 193 will rep sales rights in Cannes to French-language biopic Moulin, about WWII resistance fighter Jean Moulin. Gilles Lellouche (Tell No One) and Lars Eidinger ...
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Charles de Gaulle: The Symbol of French Defiance

German soldiers and officers saw Charles de Gaulle less as a battlefield commander and more as a powerful symbol of French resistance. After France’s rapid defeat in 1940, de Gaulle’s broadcasts from ...
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‘The Day Of The Jackal’ Creator Ronan Bennett Reimagining 1969 War Movie ‘Army Of Shadows’ As Series For Channel 4 & Canal+

The Day of the Jackal showrunner Ronan Bennett is reimagining 1969 war movie Army of Shadows for Channel 4 and Canal+, shifting the story from the French resistance in World War II to a near-future ...
The New York Times

Marcel Ophuls, Myth-Shattering War Documentarian, Is Dead at 97

He was best known for “The Sorrow and the Pity,” a landmark film that debunked ideas of vast French resistance to the Nazi occupation. By Jonathan Kandell Marcel Ophuls, the German-born filmmaker ...