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Paris brûle-t-il? (1966) More at IMDbPro »

• A French postman felt off his bicycle on the Champs Elysées, when he saw some extras dressed as German soldiers crossing the avenue during a lunch pause. He ran out screaming, "They're back! They're back!"
  
  
• Some of the French actors, such as Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron and Jean-Pierre Cassel, dubbed their own dialogue into English.
  
  
• An article in the 7 November 1966 issue of Boxoffice reported that four featurettes were made to promote the movie: "He Must Find There Nothing", in a 20-minute and a 10-minute version, a making of the production and how locations had to be modified to reflect the 1944 period; "Reality Must Not Be Left to Chance", 10-minute short behind the scenes; and a fourth featurette about composer Maurice Jarre.
  
  
• One of the main reasons for the movie being filmed in B&W was the Nazi flags. The French authorities refused to allow red and black Nazi flags to fly in Paris, even for a movie. They agreed only to have black and gray flags.
  
  
• The "German" Tanks were American built M-24 Chaffees with armor plates welded on.
  
  
• The first unit that reached Paris belonging to the 2nd Armoured Divison of Leclerc was formed by former Spanish republican soldiers. In the scene where the first half-tracks enter into Paris, you can see the names "Madrid" and "Teruel", two Spanish cities, written on their sides.
  
  
• During this movie a Nazi propaganda film is shown, saying that Poland had attacked Germany and started the war. The truth is that the Germans staged a "Polish attack" by dressing Polish prisoners in military uniforms and filming the "invasion" as an excuse to invade Poland.
  
  
• In 1967, Paramount Pictures distributed this film in the USA (dubbed in English and retitled "Is Paris Burning?") on a double bill with Chuka (1967) starring Rod Taylor and Ernest Borgnine.
  
  
• 'Roddy Mcdowell' was booked for a major cameo role but was replaced before filming.
  
  
• This film's opening prologue states: "This is not the story of a beautiful city - not as we know it today - but as it was in its most perilous and also its most glorious hours. Paris in 1944, after four years of bitter occupation, was seething on the verge of revolt against the Nazi oppressors. With the allies almost at the doorstep, the French Resistance in the city, composed of many divergent groups, struggled bitterly among themselves to find the way to liberation. TIME WAS TERRIBLY SHORT . . . "
  
  
• The meaning and relevance of this film's title "Is Paris Burning?" relates to the order given by Nazi high-command to bomb and destroy the city of Paris during the Second World War. During the film, when the resistance and Allied forces take back the city of Paris, on the phone can be heard a high-ranking Nazi ask the question: Is Paris Burning?
  
  

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