1946 film
The Battle of the Rails La Bataille du rail war film directed by René Clément . It depicts the efforts by railway workers in the French Resistance to sabotage German military transport trains during the Second World War , particularly during the Invasion of Normandy by Allies .[ 1] [ 2] Italian neorealism , it is closer to the traditional documentaries on which the director had worked.[ 3]
The film was shown at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prix international du jury and Clément won the Best Director Award . The film also won the inaugural Prix Méliès . In 1949 the film was distributed in America by Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn .
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^ Zaretsky, Robert (4 April 2018). "Macron's Been Working on the Railroad" . Foreign Policy René Clément's classic 1946 film The Battle of the Rails suggests wartime life expectancy of cheminots was even lower – at least among those who sought to sabotage the Nazi war machine in France. ^ Williams p.303
^ Williams p.303
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