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In this location, a ferris wheel is seen in the background of the shot as one character walks up to a gazebo where the camera pans around several men singing a rendition of Whittier’s “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind.” In that film, a protagonist walking through this location witnesses a man using a pistol to execute a row of horses. That character stumbles into a building at this location where he is framed in the middle bottom right of the shot against a backdrop of Michèle Morgan as (*) Port of Shadows is projected onto the wall behind him. A celebrated five and half-minute long take at this location appears in a 2007 adaptation directed by Joe Wright. In another film, a Spitfire is repeatedly seen flying over this location before it lands and is set ablaze by its pilot as he is arrested by German forces. For 10 points, Robbie Turner dies at what French coastal town that provides the setting of a 2017 Christopher Nolan film? ■END■
ANSWER: Dunkirk [Accept more specific answers such as the beaches of Dunkirk] (The unnamed film is Atonement)
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