About the film: year - Awards /: Oscar2 / Golden Globe1 / 1966 / 2 hours 55 min . drama / military / historical / The plot of the film "Paris is burning?": In early August 1944, Hitler gives the order to General Dietrich von Choltitz in his headquarters "Wolf's Den" to wipe Paris from the face of the earth. The situation is as follows: either the warlord takes the great city down to the last soldier, or undermines it and completely destroys it. At this point, the leaders of the resistance movement expect the Allied troops to enter Paris, but they decide otherwise and move directly to the German border. A group of patriotic Parisians are trying to get weapons to defend their native walls. No matter how hard the fascists try, they cannot break the spirit of the defending party. "Is Paris burning?" — continue to request information about the situation in Paris from the headquarters of the German command. But the city is holding fast.