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The Battle of the Rails (French: La Bataille du rail) is a 1946 French war film directed by René Clément. It depicts the efforts by railway workers in the French Resistance to sabotage German military transport trains during the Second World War, particularly during the Invasion of Normandy by Allies.
Railroad workers fight in the French Resistance during World War II.
The light infantry of the Maquis fights a pitched battle with an armored rail convoy of Germans on their way to Normandy. After initial German successes the Resistance wins, but at a high price. French morale is the intended object of this record of heroic resistance against odds.
This 1946 film shown recently on a French international channel pays tribute to the men that defied the German invaders in the way they only knew how, by engaging in sabotage to the trains the German used to transport supplies and equipment from France to Germany.
Rene Clément’s historically important film is an anecdotal docudrama which employs a non-professional cast and is a stirring tribute to the bravery of the French Resistance who, alongside the railway workers, risked their lives to sabotage the rail network in order to hinder the German invaders.
The Battle of the Rails. World War II: 60 Years After 2005 / La bataille du rail / France 1946. A film, both documentary and feature, about the single-minded struggle of French railway workers against German occupying forces during the Second World War.
The Battle of the Rails (French: La Bataille du rail) is a 1946 war movie directed by René Clément which tells the courageous efforts by French railway workers to sabotage German troop transport trains.
