The Cross of Lorraine

The Cross of Lorraine is a 1943 MetroGoldwynMayer war film about French prisoners of war escaping a German prison camp and joining the French Resistance. Directed by Tay Garnett, it stars JeanPierre Aumont and Gene Kelly and was partly based on Hans Habes novel A Thousand Shall Fall. The title refers to the French Cross of Lorraine, which was the symbol of the Rsistance and the Free French Forces chosen by Charles de Gaulle in 1942.

The Cross of Lorraine is one of the many Hollywood World War II propaganda films showing life in occupied Europe, with the purpose of explaining to an American audience why US involvement in the European war was just as important as the war against the Japanese in the Pacific.The film is partly based on the German refugee author Hans Habes autobiographical Ob Tausend fallen A Thousand Shall Fall from 1941, about his war experiences fighting in the French Foreign Legion against his former homeland in 1940, being captured and then escaping the German prison camp. ........

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