He was born among the bombers of war. Hitler and Mussolini and the story of the beginning of the Cannes Festival
Cannes was initially conceived as a confrontation with the Venice Film Festival, which fell under the influence of Benito Mussolini and Hitler. In September 1939, Cannes was preparing to host its first film festival. The festival opened and after the screening of just one film (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), Hitler invaded Poland and World War II broke out. All other films returned home without screening after the French government announced general mobilization and the cancellation of the festival. French government agreed to revive the Festival de Cannes as a way to attract tourists back to t...
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