Rhin et Danube

Story Line

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.

Top Cast

C. Taven

Commentator

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny

Self (archival footage)

Charles de Gaulle

Self (archival footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archival footage)

Bernard Montgomery

Self (archival footage)

Georgi Zhukov

Self (archival footage)