Each May, Hollywood glitterati descend upon Cannes for its annual Film Festival, which features — along with actors, directors and models — the Hotel Martinez at the center of the opulent affair. Film ...
He was best known for “The Sorrow and the Pity,” a landmark film that debunked ideas of vast French resistance to the Nazi occupation. By Jonathan Kandell Marcel Ophuls, the German-born filmmaker ...
Presented by the French and Francophone Studies Program of the Brandeis University Department of Romance Studies. The second Albertine French Film Festival at Brandeis University brings to campus a ...
PARIS (AP) — Marcel Ophuls, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose landmark 1969 documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis ...
A new World War 2 film telling the true story of Britain's first female spy, Churchill's favourite and the inspiration for a ...
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. WESTMINSTER — This coming May 8 will mark the 80th anniversary of "V.E. Day," the end of WWII in Europe. The Congregational Church of Westminster West ...
German soldiers and officers saw Charles de Gaulle less as a battlefield commander and more as a powerful symbol of French resistance. After France’s rapid defeat in 1940, de Gaulle’s broadcasts from ...
SCOTTSDALE, AZ — You’d never know that the 98-year-old woman working out next to you in a Scottsdale gym helped save more than a dozen lives in World War II. More than eight decades ago, by the time ...
Odile de Vasselot, aged 99: she was spurred to action by de Gaulle’s radio broadcasts from London - THOMAS SAMSON/AFP Odile de Vasselot, who has died aged 103, served in the French Resistance during ...