00:02The Eiffel Tower, the Arch of Triumph, Sacré-Cœur, the Louvre, Napoleon's Tomb, the Opera, the Chamber of Deputies, Notre
00:15Dame.
00:20Burn Paris was the order that came shrieking over the phone.
00:25Are these the plans of the factories?
00:26Yeah, well, over 200.
00:27Check out the pledges.
00:2948, the Electrical Verge, the Reservoirs, the Gasworks.
00:36Everything.
00:40Now, the story of how the City of Love escaped the death sentence comes to the screen while it is
00:46still a towering international bestseller.
00:53The hero is Paris itself, racing against time.
00:58Knowing that the Germans had mined every one of the bridges across the Seine, every important building, every monument to
01:08human dignity.
01:18The screen's leading actors came from the film capitals of the world to play their parts upon these very streets
01:26where history scorched the earth.
01:31Jean-Paul Belmondo, as Moranday, Charles Boyer, as Monod, Leslie Caron, as Françoise Lambe, Jean-Pierre Cassell, as Lieutenant Cochet,
01:43George Chikiris, as an American GI, Alain Delon, as Jacques Chabin Delmar.
01:59One of the greatest moments in history becomes a motion picture that commands the attention of the world.
02:07More than an immense and suspenseful drama of war, Is Paris Burning is the penetrating human story of housewives.
02:17Storekeepers facing death and worse.
02:22One of the most outstanding and sensitive directors, René Clément, has trained his cameras not only on events, but also
02:31on the emotions of citizens, soldiers, generals, caught in a web of desperate conflict.
02:41And the hero is Paris itself.
02:47Kirk Douglas plays General George S. Patton.
02:50Glenn Ford is General Omar Bradley.
02:53Gert Frober, General von Koltitz.
02:56Yves Motand, as Bézien.
02:59This was the rising up of the people of Paris.
03:02The underground swell of heroism that jubilantly met the advancing French and Americans.
03:10Anthony Perkins, as an American sergeant.
03:14Boy, I never thought in a thousand years I'd get to see Paris.
03:17Simone Signoret, as the owner of a French cafe.
03:20Robert Stack, as General Siebert.
03:23Marie Versini, as Claire.
03:25Skip Ward, as an American GI.
03:28Orson Welles, as the Swedish consul Nordling.
03:31It's a thousand years of history.
03:35And the dust.
03:36The liberation trade for around the world becomes flesh and blood and motion picture greatness.
03:44And the hero is Paris itself.
04:01She's behind the chair.
04:08The Там manifest once.
04:10You
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