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The Story of a Three Day Pass: Directed by Melvin Van Peebles. With Harry Baird, Pierre Doris, Christian Marin, Nicole Berger. A black American soldier is demoted for fraternizing with a white girl in France.
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- Drama, Romance
- Melvin Van Peebles
- 1968-06-12
The Story of a Three-Day Pass (French title: La Permission) is a 1967 film written and directed by Melvin Van Peebles, based on his French-language novel La Permission. It stars Harry Baird as a black American soldier who is demoted for fraternizing with a white shop clerk (Nicole Berger) in France.
Turner (Harry Baird), an African American soldier stationed in France, is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base by his casually racist commanding officer and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman (Nicole Berger)—but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
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A black American soldier, Turner (Harry Baird), is given three days leave in Paris. Not knowing what to do with himself, he goes to a nightclub where he meets a French girl, Miriam (Nicole Berger...
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- Harry Baird
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Drama
May 6, 2021 · Fortunately, The Story of a Three Day Pass has received a new 4K restoration by IndieCollect and a release by Janus Films that will be showing at the recently reopened Film Forum May 7–13 before...
Set in 1967, the film follows an African-American soldier as he find romance and enounters racial problems during a three-day pass in France.
Turner, a black American soldier, is given three days leave in Paris. Not knowing what to do with himself, he goes to a nightclub where he meets a French girl named Miriam. Their romance blossoms, but their love affair is darkened by Turner's impending departure and the specter of racial prejudice.
- 87 min
