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After the incorporation of a great part of Lorraine to Germany following the 1870 war, the Cross of Lorraine became a symbol of memory and resistance. The hill of Sion-Vaudémont, located 20 km south of Nancy, is a stronghold of Lorrain patriotism. The hill has the shape of a horseshoe and is therefore considered as a good omen.
The Cross of Lorraine: Directed by Tay Garnett. With Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf. A group of French soldiers during WWII are captured by German troops and sent to a POW camp.
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22 gen 2009 · Theatrical trailer for the 1944 World War II drama "The Cross of Lorraine" starring Jean Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly and Peter Lorre. Written by Michael Kanin ...
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The Cross appeared 1,000 years or so before the Christian era, in Egypt, where it was regarded as a symbol of goodness. In the 11th century Godfrey de Bouillon, a Lorraine nobleman, made a ...
The Cross of Lorraine is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer war film about French prisoners of war escaping a German prison camp and joining the French Resistance. Directed by Tay Garnett , starring Jean-Pierre Aumont and Gene Kelly , the film was partly based on Hans Habe 's 1941 novel A Thousand Shall Fall .
Following the capitulation of the French to Germany's Nazi invaders, a unit of defiant French soldiers become German prisoners of war. Except for the Nazi-sympathizing wine-seller Andre Duval ...
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The Cross of Lorraine (French: Croix de Lorraine) was originally a heraldic cross. The two-barred cross consists of a vertical line crossed by two shorter horizontal bars. In most renditions, the horizontal bars are "graded" with the upper bar being the shorter, though variations with the bars of equal length are also seen. The Lorraine name has come to signify several cross variations ...
