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International Festival of Audiovisual Programs

Une enfance volée : l'affaire Finaly

The true story of the Finaly children: during the second world war, two Jewish children, Robert and Gérald Finaly, are hidden in a French orphanage, then entrusted to Antoinette Brun, a member of the resistance. Their parents are deported and die in the camps. At the end of the war, their aunt in Israel asks for the children according to the last wishes of their father. But Antoinette Brun refuses to give them up, has them baptized and raises them as Catholics. The story is quickly a media event and divides both civil society and the clergy. It is not until 1953 that the two boys are found and returned to their family. Robert and Gérald, both in their 60s, today live in Israel.
France - 2008 - 1 h 26 mn - Super 16 - Colour
Director
Fabrice Genestal
Script
Philippe Bernard
based on
Catherine Poujol
Camera
Claude Garnier
Sound
Philippe Mouisset
Sets
Bruno Margery
Editing
Catherine Schwartz
Music
Régis Campo
Cast
Charlotte de Turckheim, Pierre Cassignard, Élisabeth Macocco

Production
Lizland Films,
132, rue du faubourg Saint Denis,
75010 Paris, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 4770 8305
Fax : +33 (0)1 4770 8781
E-mail : contact@lizlandfilms.com

Sales
Marie-Laure Hébrard
AB Droits Audiovisuels,
Marie-Laure Hébrard,
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93213 La Plaine-Saint-Denis Cedex, France
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Fax : +33 (0)1 4922 2216
E-mail : marie-laure.hebrard@groupe-ab.fr