Great movie, watch it often, was getting a root canal once and they put it on the TV for me to watch - when the singing between the German soldiers and the French supporters singing the Marseillaise breaks out I tear up every time, the dentist stopped and asked if I needed more pain killer.
A great scene.
My dentist never seems to give me enough painkillers.
I has a broken tooth removed after Christmas. When I scheduled the visit, he told me the last person he did it for didn’t remember anything.
I heard every word and sound, felt pressures and stuff but no pain mostly. I guess I’m naturally tolerant.
“when the singing between the German soldiers and the French supporters singing the Marseillaise breaks out I tear up every time,”
A great scene. In that scene the movie felt very real.
I can’t imagine what it was like to be under occupation like that.
I read somewhere that the German soldiers were originally to sing the Horst Wessel March, the Nazi Party's theme song, but the fact that this tune was copyrighted might have caused problems with releasing the film overseas. So Die Wacht am Rhein (the guard on the Rhine), a nineteenth-century German patriotic song, was substituted.
Incidentally, the Marseillaise remained the national anthem of the Vichy regime in France, at least officially, although they most likely preferred their own theme song Maréchal, Nous Voilà (Marshal, we are here)