À la vie / Breaking Glass Pictures presents ; produced by Denis Carot, Marie Masmonteil ; written by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann and Danièle D'Antoni, with the collaboration of Odile Barski ; directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann.
Publisher:
Breaking Glass Pictures,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2014. Widescreen (1.85:1). DVD exclusive: Irène et ses Soeurs, the documentary by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, whose real life mother inspired the film (French with English Subtitles). Julie Depardieu, Johanna ter Steege, Suzanne Clément, Hippolyte Girardot, Mathias Mlekuz, Benjamin Wangermée.
Summary:
Inspired by a true story. Helene, Lili and Rose met in Auschwitz, where the three twenty-year-old Jewish girls were deported. Thanks to German-speaking Dutch Lili, who was working in the camp kitchen, the two French girls survived. However, after the liberation of the camp, they lost touch. Lili went back to the Netherlands. Rose married a former deportee and settled down in Canada. Helene returned home to France, where she met an old childhood sweetheart, and married him, aware of his impotency caused by sinister doctors carrying out experiments on him in the concentration camp. Determined to find her old companions, Helene puts an ad in a deportees newspaper. Against all odds, the ad is answered and the women are reunited. The reunion takes place in Berck Plage in the north of France. The women rediscover each other, as well as help each other to overcome their Auschwitz demons.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.