Les Survivants
They are survivors. 60 years on, they speak out. The words emerge from a memory intact, astonishingly precise, relating what they lived through, from spring 1944 to spring 1945, during the final months of the camps in this period that marked the death throes of the Third Reich. Their story deals with the horrendous end of World War II, during which time the death camps continued to crush thousands of lives. The film covers the final year: the extermination of Hungarian Jews and gypsies at Birkenau, the Nazi evacuation of Polish camps in January, the death marchs, the waiting for the end of the overpopulated damps, the apocalyptic chaos of the last weeks of April, the arrival of the first Allied troops, the joyless liberation which does not yet bring liberty, the journey home, the welcome at the Hotel Lutetia, the return to the world of the living, and the reunion with family—those families that have survived.
France - 2005 - 1 h 55 mn - DV Cam - Colour and B&W
Director
Patrick Rotman
Writer
Patrick Rotman
Camera
Georges de Genevray
Sound
Laurent Schwartz
Editing
David Korn-Brzoza
Music
Richard Bois
with the voice of
Florence Pernel
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Production
Kuiv Productions,
55 bis, rue de Lyon,
75012 Paris, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 4475 7915
Fax : +33 (0)1 4475 7919
E-mail : contact@kuiv.com
with the participation of
France 3, France 5, TV5 Monde, Planète, Télévision Suisse Romande / Radio Télévision Suisse, Radiotélévision belge de la communauté française, Europe Images International
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Sales
Europe Images International,
24, quai Alphonse Le Gallo,
92513 Boulogne cedex, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 5595 5757
Fax : +33 (0)1 5595 5759
E-mail : emilie.huc@europeimages.com |
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