Black Thursday (1974)

Original title

Les Guichets du Louvre

Directed by

Michel Mitrani

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a young man in Paris during the 1942 Vel' d'Hiv Roundup. He witnesses the French police arresting Jewish families, and he tries to help a young woman escape the mass arrest.

historicalsobergrimrestrainedunnervingquietly intensesomber

What happens

Black Thursday (French: Les Guichets du Louvre) is a French film from 1974 directed by Michel Mitrani. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1960 novel by Roger Bousinnot, the film portrays the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942, when French police arrested over 13,000 Jewish inhabitants of Paris and held them under inhumane conditions for deportation to Auschwitz, where virtually all were murdered. It was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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