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The Story of a Three Day Pass: Directed by Melvin Van Peebles. With Harry Baird, Pierre Doris, Christian Marin, Nicole Berger. A black American soldier is demoted for fraternizing with a white girl in France.
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- Drama, Romance
- Melvin Van Peebles
- 1968-06-12
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The Story of a Three-Day Pass (French title: La Permission) is a 1967 film written and directed by Melvin Van Peebles, based on his French-language novel La Permission. It stars Harry Baird as a black American soldier who is demoted for fraternizing with a white shop clerk (Nicole Berger) in France.
A black American soldier, Turner (Harry Baird), is given three days leave in Paris. Not knowing what to do with himself, he goes to a nightclub where he meets a French girl, Miriam (Nicole Berger...
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- Harry Baird
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Drama
Turner (Harry Baird), an African American soldier stationed in France, is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base by his casually racist commanding officer and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman (Nicole Berger)—but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
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May 17, 2021 · A commentary on France’s contradictory attitudes about race, it’s an exploration of an interracial relationship between a Black American GI stationed in France (Turner, played by Harry Baird) and a...
- Tambay Obenson
Channeling the brash exuberance of the French New Wave, Melvin Van Peebles’s innovative first feature explores the psychology of an interracial relationship through the whirlwind romance between an African American soldier stationed in France and a white woman—and creates a commentary on France’s contradictory attitudes about race that is ...
The Story of a Three Day Pass. Directed by Melvin Van Peebles • 1967 • United States. Starring Harry Baird, Nicole Berger, Hal Brav. Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in America.
