The Last Metro (1980) on Netflix
In occupied Paris, Marion Steiner runs the Théâtre Montmartre, and her Jewish husband Lucas hides in the theater's cellar. A new actor, Bernard Granger, joins the company's production.
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Plot summary
Paris, late 1942. Fuel shortages keep audiences in theaters, though the curfew means catching the last Métro home. At the Théâtre Montmartre, the former owner and director, Lucas Steiner, a Jew, is believed to have fled Paris; the theater now belongs to his wife Marion, its leading actress, and he is in fact hidden in its cellar. Marion is mounting The Disappearance, a play Lucas staged before his departure, with Jean-Loup Cottins directing from his notes. Bernard Granger, new to the company, takes the male lead opposite Marion; he pursues Arlette Guillaume, the costume designer, who ignores him, while he and Marion work well together on stage.
Cast
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- Jean-Pierre Kleinas Christian Leglise
- Renata Floresas Greta Borg, Nightclub Singer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Last Metro (1980)
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- The scene where Bernard Granger beats up the critic Daxiat was drawn from a real beating the actor Jean Marais gave to Alain Laubreaux, the theatre critic of the collaborationist paper Je suis partout.
- Catherine Deneuve sprained her ankle in a fall during the shoot, forcing scenes to be filmed at short notice, and the scriptwriter Suzanne Schiffman was hospitalised with a serious intestinal obstruction.
- Gérard Depardieu at first did not want to be in the film because he disliked François Truffaut's directing style, and was only later convinced to take part.
- Truffaut long wanted to film the German occupation because his uncle and grandfather were in the French Resistance and were once caught passing messages, an episode he recreated in The Last Metro.
- Most of the film was shot in an abandoned chocolate factory in Clichy that was converted into a studio.
