This year on Saturday June 2nd in Sainte-Mère-Eglise they’re calling it “The Longest Night”.

For the 50th anniversary of the official theatrical release of “The Longest Day” in the town square by the church they are going to set up a gigantic wide screen for the movie that will be projected up against it. After the movie there will be fireworks and then the “Liberation Dance” will begin….

“The Longest Day” 1962 staring : John Wayne, Sean Connery, Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Henry Fonda, Curt Jurgens and many, many more list too long, an all-star cast of the best actors of that era. ( American actors but also French and German, English too.)