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Bookmark this pageLa Bataille du Rail (1946)
Director: Colette Audry, René Clément
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From Time Out Film Guide
The French neo-realist 'movement' began and ended with this film, whose innovations were developed neither in Clément's nor the national cinema. A semi-documentary study of World War II resistance among Breton railwaymen, using non-professional actors and natural locations, it's compromised by the director's periodic recourse to affirmative, audience-rousing set pieces, but achieves overall a sobriety that is oddly modern, even 'Bressonian' in tone.Author: GAd
Cast & crew
Director: Colette Audry, René Clément
Cast: Antoine Laurent, Lucien Desagneux, Robert Leray, Redon, Léon Pauléon full cast
Duration: 87 mins
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