Black Thursday

Original title: Les guichets du Louvre

1974
PG
1h 32m

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6.3/10

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Christine Pascal and Christian Rist in Black Thursday (1974)

French Drama History

Paris, 16 July, 1942. Paul, an idealist student, tries to save some people from the huge "Vel d'Hiv Roundup" by police and gendarmes of over 13,000 Jewish inhabitants for deportation to Ausc... Read allParis, 16 July, 1942. Paul, an idealist student, tries to save some people from the huge "Vel d'Hiv Roundup" by police and gendarmes of over 13,000 Jewish inhabitants for deportation to Auschwitz. There he meets one young woman, Jeanne.Paris, 16 July, 1942. Paul, an idealist student, tries to save some people from the huge "Vel d'Hiv Roundup" by police and gendarmes of over 13,000 Jewish inhabitants for deportation to Auschwitz. There he meets one young woman, Jeanne.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

205

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The first film to deal with the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup and France's responsibility in the deportation of its Jewish citizens to Nazi Germany and was only able to go into production ten years after the script was written, due to its controversial nature. Three later films also go into the events, namely Mr. Klein (1976), The Round Up (2010) and Sarah's Key (2010), the first and last of which through a fictional storyline. The complicity of France was only officially recognized 53 years after the events, in 1995, by President Jacques Chirac.