Madame Rosa [videodisc] / StudioCanal ; Raymond Danon, Roland Girard, Jean Bolvary present ; a film by Moshe Mizrahi ; produced by Jea Bolvary ; directed and written by Moshe Mizrahi.
Format:
[videodisc] /
Publisher:
Kino Lorber,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
1 digital videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Special features include: audio commentary by film historian Kat Ellinger. Originally released as a motion picture in 1977. "Based on the novel by Emile Ajar [Romain Gary] ... adapted by Moshe Mizrahi" -- Container Accompanying material may vary. Cast: Simone Signoret, Samy Ben Youb, Michal Bat-Adam, Genevieve Fontanel.
Summary:
Madam Rosa, a French-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust now runs a boarding house in Paris for the children of prostitutes. She takes a liking to Momo, an Algerian boy who she raises in the Muslim faith, a controversial decision in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But their bond transcends religion, and they scrape by as an unlikely but loving family. That is, until her health declines and the intolerance around them threatens to tear them apart.
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