Black Thursday (film)

Black Thursday
Directed byMichel Mitrani
Written byMichel Mitrani
Albert Cossery
Roger Boussinot
StarringChristian Rist
CinematographyJean Tournier
Music byMort Shuman
Release date
  • 28 August 1974 (1974-08-28)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

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]

  1. ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for Black Thursday". IMDb. Retrieved 4 July 2010.