The Last Metro Movie Review 1980

Truffaut's alternately gripping and touching drama about a theatre company in Nazi-occupied Paris. In 1942, Lucas Steiner (Bennent) is a successful Jewish theatre director who is forced into hiding. He turns the running of the theatre over to his wife, Marion (the always exquisite Deneuve), who must contend with a pro-Nazi theatre critic (Richard) and her growing attraction to the company's leading man (Depardieu), who is secretly working with the Resistance. In French with English subtitles.

Distribution

Simon Wiesenthal Center, 1399 S. Roxbury, Los Angeles, CA 90035, Phone: (310)553-9036, Toll-free: 800-900-9036, Fax: (310)553-4521, Email: information@wiesenthal.net, URL: http://www.wiesenthal.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 135 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War II, Judaism, Nazis & Other Paramilitary Slugs, The Holocaust, Showbiz Dramas, France, Paris, The Resistance

Screenplay

Francois Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, Jean-Claude Grumberg

Cast

Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Heinz Bennent, Jean-Louis Richard, Jean Poiret, Andrea Ferreol, Paulette Dubost, Sabine Haudepin, Maurice Risch, Jean-Pierre Klein, Martine Simonet, Franck Pasquier, Jean-Jose Richer, Laszlo Szabo, Jessica Zucman

Cinematography

Nestor Almendros

Director

Francois Truffaut

Music

Georges Delerue

Producer

Roissy, Francois Truffaut

Awards

Cesar 1981: Actor (Depardieu), Actress (Deneuve), Art Dir./Set Dec., Cinematog., Director (Truffaut), Film, Sound, Writing, Score.