The Last Metro: Frantois Truffaut, Director (Rutgers Films in Print)

By François Truffaut and Mirella Jona Affron

Book Overview

Francois Truffaut, one of the great directors of the French New Wave cinema of the 50s and 60s, has directed at least 20 films. In The Last Metro, Heinz Bennett is cast as Lucas Steiner, the director of a small theatre who is forced to hide in a cellar for years during the French Occupation. Catherine Deneuve, as his wife, takes over the running of the theatre, which survives through the crew's ability to transfer its skills from the make-believe world of theatre to the real world of Nazi oppression and ruthlessness.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813510651
• ISBN13: 9780813510651
• Release Date: March 1985
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"