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2020.03.24 02:53 GMT+8

French neighborhood stuck in 1940s amid COVID-19 lockdown

Updated 2020.03.24 02:53 GMT+8
Ross Cullen in Paris

A Paris neighborhood is stuck in the 1940s after a film crew left its set behind when France went into COVID-19 lockdown. 

Adieu Monsieur Haffmann, a World War II film about a man, the woman he loves and a jeweler in 1940s Nazi-occupied France, is due to be premiered in 2021.

But due to the coronavirus outbreak, the film production had to be put on hold as France entered a period of lockdown and the crew didn't have time to take down the set. 

The French neighborhood of Montmartre is stuck in a 1940s film set /Ross Cullen/CGTN

Posters and designs now line the streets as people literally immerse themselves in a real-life film set based in a neighbourhood in, Montmartre, northern Paris.

A brocanteur (second-hand shop) has been dressed up as a 1940s bric-a-brac store and lies next to a tattoo parlour, which has been left as it would be in 2020. 

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