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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?
- Turner
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
There, gliding coolly into a night club and at first finding only rejection, Turner meets a white Frenchwoman named Miriam (Nicole Berger) in a giddily filmed, erotically charged dance...
May 17, 2021 · The fifth, 1967’s “La Permission,” became the basis for his 1968 feature-film debut, “The Story of a Three-Day Pass.”. A commentary on France’s contradictory attitudes about race, it ...
- Tambay Obenson
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.
A Black soldier stationed in France is given a three-day leave pass to explore the country. While he frolics around, he quickly finds love with a white French woman and ponders how their budding romance will be able to survive.
