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Release Date: 1980

Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Andréa Ferréol, Maurice Risch, Jean Poiret, Jean-Louis Richard, Paulette Dubost, Christian Baltauss, Heinz Bennent, Catherine Deneuve, Sabine Haudepin, René Dupré

Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Art film, World cinema, War film

The Last Metro (original French title: Le Dernier Métro) is a 1980 film made by Les Films du Carrosse, written and directed by the French filmmaker François Truffaut, and starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu. In 1981, the film won ten Césars for: best film, best actor (Depardieu), best actress (Deneuve), best cinematography, best director (Truffaut), best editing, best music, best production design, best sound and best writing. It received Best Foreign Film nominations in the Academy Awards and Golden Globes. This film was one installment—dealing with theatre—of a... MORE

The Last Metro (original French title: Le Dernier Métro) is a 1980 film made by Les Films du Carrosse, written and directed by the French filmmaker François Truffaut, and starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu. In 1981, the film won ten Césars for: best film, best actor (Depardieu), best actress (Deneuve), best cinematography, best director (Truffaut), best editing, best music, best production design, best sound and best writing. It received Best Foreign Film nominations in the Academy Awards and Golden Globes. This film was one installment—dealing with theatre—of a trilogy on the entertainment world that Truffaut had planned. The installment that dealt with the film world was 1973's La Nuit Américaine (Day for Night), which had been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Truffaut completed the screenplay for the third installment, L'Agence Magique, which would have dealt with the world of music hall. In the late 1970s he was close to beginning filming, but the failure of his film The Green Room forced him to look to a more commercial project, and he filmed Love on the Run instead. The film was one of the director's most successful efforts, LESS