Illustrious & Unknown: The Man Who Saved the Louvre

57min

Animation

Documentary

History

TV Movie

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.

Production Companies

Ladybirds Films

Le Musée du Louvre

France Télévisions

Cast

Mathieu Amalric

Mathieu Amalric

Self - Narrator (voice)

Release date

31st Oct 2014

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Français