The Gates of Fire

The Gates of Fire
The Gates of Fire
Directed by	Claude Bernard-Aubert
Written by	Claude Bernard-Aubert ; Roger Delpey
Produced by	Roger Delpey
Starring	Emmanuelle Riva ; Dany Carrel ; Annie Cordy ; Juliette Mills
Cinematography	Raymond Le Moigne
Edited by	Andrée Davanture
Music by	Alain Goraguer
Production; company	Paris Film Productions
Distributed by	Alcifrance
Release date	15 March 1972;
Running time	89 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Gates of Fire (French: Les portes de feu) is a 1972 French war drama film directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert and starring Emmanuelle Riva, Dany Carrel, Annie Cordy and Juliette Mills. Location shooting took place in the Camargue in Southern France standing in for wartime Libya.

Synopsis

In 1942 during the North African campaign of World War II, four Free French nurses are captured by a German patrol during Rommel's offensive following the First Battle of El Alamein. After a psychological trying time they are eventually able to turn the tables on their captors and bring them back to Allied lines.

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