Is Paris Burning? (film)

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Is Paris Burning?
American theatrical film poster
Directed by	René Clément
Screenplay by	Gore Vidal Francis Ford Coppola Jean Aurenche Pierre Bost Claude Brulé
Based on	Is Paris Burning by Larry Collins Dominique Lapierre
Produced by	Paul Graetz
Starring	Jean-Paul Belmondo Charles Boyer Leslie Caron Jean-Pierre Cassel George Chakiris Alain Delon Kirk Douglas Glenn Ford Gert Fröbe Yves Montand Anthony Perkins Simone Signoret Robert Stack Marie Versini Skip Ward Orson Welles
Cinematography	Marcel Grignon
Edited by	Robert Lawrence
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Production companies	Seven Arts Productions Marianne Productions Transcontinental Films
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	26 October 1966 (1966-10-26) (France) 10 November 1966 (1966-11-10) (U.S.)
Running time	173 minutes
Countries	France United States
Box office	$37.1 million[1]

Is Paris Burning? (French: Paris brûle-t-il ?) is a 1966 black-and-white epic war film about the liberation of Paris in August 1944 by the French Resistance and the Free French Forces during World War II. A French-American co-production, it was directed by French filmmaker René Clément, with a screenplay by Gore Vidal, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost and Claude Brulé, adapted from the 1965 book of the same title by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. The film stars an international ensemble cast that includes French (Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Bruno Cremer, Pierre Vaneck, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Yves Montand), American (Orson Welles, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Robert Stack, Anthony Perkins, George Chakiris) and German (Gert Fröbe, Hannes Messemer, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, Harry Meyen, Wolfgang Preiss) stars.

The film was released in France on October 26, 1966, and in the United States on November 10, 1966. It received generally positive reviews, and was the fourth-most-popular film of the year in France for 1966.^[2] It was nominated for Best Cinematography (Black and White) and Academy Award for Best Art Direction at the 40th Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.