The Last Metro

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Le Dernier Métro
IMDB Image:3hv out of 5.png 7.4/10 (1,611 votes)
Directed by	François Truffaut
Produced by	François Truffaut
Written by	François Truffaut Suzanne Schiffman
Starring	Catherine Deneuve Gérard Depardieu
Release date(s)	1980
Running time	131 min.
Language	French
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The Last Metro (original French title: Le Dernier Métro) is a 1980 film written and directed by the French filmmaker François Truffaut, and starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu. Set during the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War, it tells the story of a Jewish theatre director and his gentile wife, who struggles to keep him concealed from the Nazis in their cellar while she performs his former job.

In 1981, the film won ten Césars for: best film, best actor (Depardieu), best actress (Deneuve), best cinematography, best director (Truffaut), best editing, best music, best production design, best sound and best writing. It received Best Foreign Film nominations in the Academy Awards and Golden Globes.

This film was one instalment — dealing with theatre — of a trilogy that François Truffaut planned on the entertainment world. The instalment that dealt with the film world was 1973's La Nuit Américaine (Day for Night). That film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The screenplay for the third instalment, L'Agence Magique, which would have dealt with the world of Music hall, had been completed by Truffaut and in the late 1970s he was close to beginning filming but the failure of his film The Green Room forced him to look to a more commercial project and he filmed Love on the Run instead.