Black Thursday | |
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Directed by | Michel Mitrani |
Written by | Michel Mitrani Albert Cossery Roger Boussinot |
Starring | Christian Rist |
Cinematography | Jean Tournier |
Music by | Mort Shuman |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Black Thursday (French: Les Guichets du Louvre) is a French film from 1974 directed by Michel Mitrani. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1960 novel by Roger Bousinnot, the film portrays the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942, when French police arrested over 13,000 Jewish inhabitants of Paris and held them under inhumane conditions for deportation to Auschwitz, where virtually all were murdered. It was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]