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Children of Paradise (original French title: Les Enfants du Paradis) is a two-part French romantic drama film by Marcel Carné, produced under war conditions in 1943, 1944, and early 1945 in both Vichy France and Occupied France.
Filming was completed a short time before D-Day and the director, having planned to distribute the film after the liberation of France, had three copies printed and concealed in three different places: a cellar of the Banque de France, a strongbox of Pathé and a Provence country house.
- Marcel Carné
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Jan 6, 2002 · All discussions of Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise begin with the miracle of its making. Named at Cannes as the greatest French film of all time, costing more than any French film before it, Les Enfants du Paradis was shot in Paris and Nice during the Nazi occupation and released in 1945.
This nimble depiction of nineteenth-century Paris’s theatrical demimonde, filmed during World War II, follows a mysterious woman (Arletty) loved by four different men (all based on historical figures): an actor, a criminal, a count, and, most poignantly, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault, in a longing-suffused performance for the ages).
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Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis, 1945) is undoubtedly the most important film produced in France during the Occupation and one of the great French films of all time. The film was shot under exceptionally difficult circumstances: by 1943, when production started, much of France's best talent had already left for Hollywood or other ...
- Marcel Carnt
- Arletty
Children of Paradise. Directed by Marcel Carné • 1945 • France. Starring Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur. Poetic realism reached sublime heights with CHILDREN OF PARADISE, widely considered one of the greatest French films of all time.
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An in-depth review of the film Les Enfants du paradis (1945), aka Children of Paradise, directed by Marcel Carne, featuring Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur.
