TITLE...........: Is Paris Burning? [Paris brule-t-il?] STARS...........: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Alain Delon DIRECTOR........: Rene Clement WRITERS.........: Gore Vidal, Francis Ford Coppola, Marcel Moussy GENRE...........: War, Drama, History TOMATOMETER.....: 75/71 IMDB SCORE......: 6.8 IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060814 RUNTIME.........: 2h 52mn SIZE............: 12.6 GB VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4) BITRATE.........: 9000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION......: 1920x1080 ASPECT RATIO....: 1.78:1 FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps AUDIO1..........: English Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 768kbps AUDIO2..........: English AAC 2.0 288kbps VBR AUDIO3..........: French FLAC 2.0 AUDIO4..........: Commentary by film historians Daniel Kremer & Howard S. Berger SUBTITLES.......: ENG SOURCE..........: Kino Lorber RM4K Blu-ray ENCODE DATE.....: 2025-01-05 CHECKSUM........: 6076A591FD749ECC8D234D97A0644B71

August 1944. With the invasion of Europe well underway and Germany in retreat, the Allied forces are poised to take the French capital. General Von Choltitz receives a direct order from Hitler that if he cannot hold Paris he must destroy it, completely. After a group of students serving in the French resistance are massacred, Colonel Tanguy incites the public to turn on the occupying Nazis. Reluctantly, Von Choltitz gives the order for bombs to be placed at strategic points in the city, sufficient to decimate all its historical monuments and most of the population