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Illustrious & Unknown: The Man Who Saved the Louvre

Illustrious & Unknown: The Man Who Saved the Louvre

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 31, 2014

Runtime

0h 57m

Genres

Animation, Documentary, History, TV Movie

User Score

60%

Original Title

Illustre & inconnu : comment Jacques Jaujard a sauvé le Louvre

Production Companies

Ladybirds Films, Le Musée du Louvre, France Télévisions

Director

Pierre Pochart

Description

Paris, France, 1939, at the dawn of World War II. The French resistance orchestrates an incredible operation to put hundreds of masterpieces of art, part of the artistic heritage of humanity and preserved in the Louvre Museum, away from the greedy and dirty hands of the Nazis, who are about to invade the country.