Yesterday I learned about another remarkable Russian woman from a documentary entitled Anna Marly, Russian Muse of the French Resistance shown at the first annual Russian Documentary Film Festival. Anna Marly (née Anna Yurievna Betulinskaya) wrote and performed the rousing anthem “Le Chant Des Partisans.” It became the theme song of the Resistance—during the occupation the French whistled the song to each other as a way of revealing one’s partisan loyalties.
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Le Chant des Partisans
Posted in Beyond Borders, Films, tagged Anna Marly, Joan Baez, Le Chant Des Partisans, Leonard Cohen, Prokofiev, Toulouse on April 13, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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