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The History of French Cinema: 1945

Jan -

The Fédération Nationale des Cinémas Français is founded. [ADD]

11/2 -

After four years in South America, Louis Jouvet and his troupe return to France.   Jacques Feyder offers Jouvet a role in his forthcoming film, Talleyrand. [ADD]

9/3 -

The premiere of Marcel Carne’s Les Enfants du paradis takes place at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris.   The near-three hour film, which stars Pierre Brasseur, Marcel Herrand, Louis Salou, Pierre Renoir, Marcel Pérès, Gaston Modot, and Maria Casarès in her screen debut, receives a lukewarm reception. [ADD]

4/4 -

A subtitled version of Marcel Carné's Les Visiteurs du soir (1942) plays at the Clichy Palace cinema, which screens American films for the Allied forces, [ADD]

14/4 -

All places of entertainment in Paris are closed for the day as a mark of respect for US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose funeral takes place today in Washington. [ADD]

25/4 -

Actress Micheline Presle marries tennis champion and Bordeaux wine merchant Michel Lefort  [ADD]

28/4 -

An extra is killed by a bullet wound to the chest in Grasse on the set of Jeff Musso's film Vive la liberté.  [ADD]

Apr -

Following strikes over the lack of film and copies and of power cuts results in a 40% price increase and a new tax of 7% of gross box office.   These are imposed to aid the reconstruction of cinemas destroyed by the war and to finance film-making. [ADD]

18/5 -

Max Ophüls' From Mayerling to Sarajevo premieres in Paris five years after it was completed.   The film, which stars Edwige Feuillere was banned by the Nazis. [ADD]

20/6 -

Jacques Becker’s Falbalas, starring Micheline Presle and Raymond Rouleau, is released. [ADD]

17/10 -

Christian-Jaque’s adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's story Boule-de-suif is released.   It stars Micheline Presle as the tart with a heart. [ADD]

14/11 -

Abel Gance returns to France following his failed attempt to shoot a film in Spain. [ADD]

22/11 -

Georges Rouquier completes filming of his documentary, Farrebique ou Les quatre saisons after nearly a year of filming. [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1945