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Elsa TRIOLET (1986-1970). Autograph manuscript for Normandie-Niémen, [1949?]; 72 in-4 or in-fol. sheets (some double-sided). Drafts and first draft manuscripts for the screenplay of the film Normandie-Niémen. Elsa Triolet wrote a first screenplay in 1949, which was abandoned; this is most probably the manuscript we are presenting. The project was resumed ten years later, with the script and dialogues written by Charles Spaak, Elsa Triolet and Constantin Simonov, who declared: "The basis of Normandie-Niémen was an idea born of history itself: to tell the story of how French airmen fought the German fascists on Soviet soil. And this idea belonged to Elsa Triolet". The film was directed by Jean Dréville, and had its world premiere in February 1960, with an international cast. First draft and working manuscript, abundantly scratched and corrected, with several different versions of the same passages, sketches, plan (in 14 parts, in Russian and French), etc. Let's quote the beginning of the text: "Will Germany win the war? It's May 42. On the seas, the British fleet is attacked from the air and from the bottom of the sea. Emerging from the bush of the Pacific islands, the Japanese are driving the American army back to an uncertain sea, where they have control of the skies. German tanks advance across the corpse-strewn Russian plain"...
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Elsa TRIOLET (1986-1970). Autograph manuscript for Normandie-Niémen, [1949?]; 72 in-4 or in-fol. sheets (some double-sided). Drafts and first draft manuscripts for the screenplay of the film Normandie-Niémen. Elsa Triolet wrote a first screenplay in 1949, which was abandoned; this is most probably the manuscript we are presenting. The project was resumed ten years later, with the script and dialogues written by Charles Spaak, Elsa Triolet and Constantin Simonov, who declared: "The basis of Normandie-Niémen was an idea born of history itself: to tell the story of how French airmen fought the German fascists on Soviet soil. And this idea belonged to Elsa Triolet". The film was directed by Jean Dréville, and had its world premiere in February 1960, with an international cast. First draft and working manuscript, abundantly scratched and corrected, with several different versions of the same passages, sketches, plan (in 14 parts, in Russian and French), etc. Let's quote the beginning of the text: "Will Germany win the war? It's May 42. On the seas, the British fleet is attacked from the air and from the bottom of the sea. Emerging from the bush of the Pacific islands, the Japanese are driving the American army back to an uncertain sea, where they have control of the skies. German tanks advance across the corpse-strewn Russian plain"...
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