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NUIT DE NOËL À NOTRE-DAME (Christmas night in Notre-Dame Cathedral)

Borrah MINEVITCH
1949
Version : French
Duration : 11'
Format : 35 mm. - 16 mm.
Black & white
Producer : CADY Films
Country France
With Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois
Picture Jacques MERCANTON
Stage set The interior of Notre-Dame Cathedral

Like every year for the past eight centuries, huge crowds flock to Notre-Dame de Paris to hear the three Masses of the Nativity, and many are unable to find a seat in the nave. It is for them that television makes a discreet entrance into the choir to launch into space the images of this touching celebration whose message is addressed to everyone, believers and non-believers alike.