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The Story of a Three-Day Pass

Original title: La permission
  • 1967
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 27m
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7.2/10
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The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967)
A black American soldier is demoted for fraternizing with a white girl in France.
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A black American soldier is demoted for fraternizing with a white girl in France.A black American soldier is demoted for fraternizing with a white girl in France.A black American soldier is demoted for fraternizing with a white girl in France.

  • Director
    • Melvin Van Peebles
  • Writer
    • Melvin Van Peebles
  • Stars
    • Harry Baird
    • Pierre Doris
    • Christian Marin
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    519
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Melvin Van Peebles
    • Writer
      • Melvin Van Peebles
    • Stars
      • Harry Baird
      • Pierre Doris
      • Christian Marin
    • 7User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
    • 77Metascore
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    Harry Baird and Nicole Berger in The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967)
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    Harry Baird and Nicole Berger in The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967)
    Harry Baird in The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967)
    Harry Baird and Nicole Berger in The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967)
    Harry Baird and Nicole Berger in The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967)
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    Harry Baird, Nicole Berger, and Pierre Doris in The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967)

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      • Melvin Van Peebles
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    • Trivia
      Final film of actress Nicole Berger who had died a year before in a road accident.
    • Connections
      Featured in Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022)

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    7/10
    An American in Paris
    Based on his own novel, Melvin Van Peebles' calling card as a director - made in France at the tail end of the nouvelle vague - owes more to Lelouch than Godard.

    Van Peebles enterprisingly shows all the unsympathetic characters (including nearly all the white characters and his sarcastic alter ego seen in the mirror) using a subjective camera. Unfortunately this also includes a clucking coven of black women, the only really sympathetic character once more being an attractive and obliging white woman (played by the late Nicole Berger) he picks up and with whom he enjoys a weekend of love; a convention that would have drawn approbation had it been practised by a white director.
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    • Release date
      • June 12, 1968 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Languages
      • French
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Story of a 3-Day Pass
    • Filming locations
      • Etretat, Normandy, France(Beach scene)
    • Production company
      • O.P.E.R.A.
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    • Budget
      • $100,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 27 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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