Rhin et Danube (1948)
Overview
A documentary produced by the French armed forces which chronicles the way of France’s “1ere armée” in the second world war from the days it first crossed the Rhine in March of 1945, through the liberation of a POW-camp in Swabia, until the forces reached the Danube and the Alps at the end of the war and the day French troops marched in the victory parade in Berlin.
Cast
Charles de Gaulle
Self (archival footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archival footage)
Bernard Montgomery
Self (archival footage)
Georgi Zhukov
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