The best Marcel Delaître’s war movies

Marcel Delaître

Marcel Delaître

25/01/1888- 21/04/1963
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Marcel Delaître’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Marcel Delaître.

Paradis perdu

Paradis perdu
6.7/10
In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.

Wooden Crosses

Wooden Crosses
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 17/03/1932
  • Character: Soldat Berthier
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.

Mr. Orchid

Mr. Orchid
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 30/04/1946
  • Character: Charrat
This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing orchids to hide his radio equipment.

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