The Battle of the Rails
La bataille du rail, feature film, 1946.
DIRECTED BY: René Clément
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