Yorktown: The Meaning of a Victory
Yorktown: Le sens d'une victoire
Watch yorktown: the meaning of a victory HDToday. Commissioned by French TV, Yorktown covers the bicentennial commemoration of the Siege of Yorktown, near the end of the American Revolutionary War, where the Americans and their French allies defeated the English. The festivities celebrating Franco-American friendship give Ophüls some amusement, as he takes a gleefully ironic look at the formally “friendly” meeting between Mitterand and Reagan, or exposes the absurdity of patriotic folklore.
- Genre: Documentary
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- Director: Marcel Ophüls
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