Thunder Over Paris (1940)

Original title

Tempête

Directed by

Dominique Bernard-Deschamps

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In pre-World War II Paris, a woman becomes tangled in a web of personal and political tensions. The story follows her relationships and choices as the threat of conflict looms over the city.

somberrestrainedperiodmelancholicquietly intensegrittyatmospheric

What happens

Thunder Over Paris (French: Tempête) is a 1940 French drama film directed by Dominique Bernard-Deschamps and starring Arletty, Marcel Dalio and Annie Ducaux. It was shot at the Joinville Studios of Pathé in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Hubert. It was filmed before the outbreak of war and released during the Phoney War period before the Fall of France. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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