The Battle of the Rails

La bataille du rail, feature film, 1946.

DIRECTED BY: René Clément

The Battle of the Rails

CAST:
Marcel Barnault,
Jean Clarieux (Lampin),
Jean Daurand,
Jacques Desagneaux (Athos),
François Joux

SCRIPT:
René Clément

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Henri Alekan

Synopsis:
Clément’s film was initially planned as a documentary, but during shooting became something more. Many railroad workers were joined by film professionals and the result is a film enriched with fictional dialogues and scenes, and a reconstruction of events that took place in the time of French resistance and which peaked with the attack on a German armored train.

35 mm, b/w, 85 min

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