March 9, 1945 November 15, 1946| runtime = 190 min (uncut version on DVDs) | language = French | budget = | cinematography=Marc Fossard Roger Hubert| editing= Henri Rust Madeleine Bonin | amg_id = 1:9264 | imdb_id = 0037674 | }} Les Enfants du Paradis (released as Children of Paradise in North America, but more correctly translated as Children of the Gods) is a 1945 film by French director Marcel Carné, made during the Nazi occupation of France. The film is set around the Parisian theatre in 1828 and tells the story of a beautiful courtesan, Garance, and the four men who love her in their own ways: a mime, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat. It is an epic, 3 hour film, described in the original trailer as the French answer to Gone with the Wind.Original trailer, available on the Criterion Collection DVD edition. The fi

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