World War II · Film · 1980
The Last Metro
Le Dernier Métro
In occupied Paris an actress keeps her theater open while hiding her Jewish husband, its real director, in the cellar, and falls for the new leading man.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 1 places.
Stop 1: Montmartre, Paris
Key location
At the Théâtre Montmartre, Marion rehearses a new play by day and by night visits the husband hidden beneath the stage.
What really happened
Under the occupation Paris theaters and cinemas were full: they were warm in winters without coal, and audiences rushed out to catch the last metro before the curfew. At the same time Vichy's anti-Jewish statutes of 1940 and 1941 barred Jews from directing theaters, newspapers and most professions, and many went into hiding.
Truffaut drew on memoirs of the period. The critic Daxiat is modeled on Alain Laubreaux of the collaborationist weekly Je suis partout, whom actor Jean Marais really did beat up over a hostile review. The film won ten César Awards, including Best Film.
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Full details
- Original title
- Le Dernier Métro
- Directed by
- François Truffaut
- Countries
- France
- Languages
- French
- Released
- 1980
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- Western Europe
- Themes
- Home front
- Romance
