À la vie

DVD - 2016

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 tak...es 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.

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Subjects
Genres
Feature films
Historical films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
Philadelphia, PA : Breaking Glass Pictures [2016]
Language
French
English
Other Authors
Jean-Jacques Zilbermann (screenwriter), Danièle D'Antoni (film producer), Odile Barski, 1946- (actor), Denis Carot, Marie Masmonteil, Julie Depardieu, 1973-, Johanna ter Steege, Suzanne Clément, Hippolyte Girardot, 1955-, Mathias Mlekuz
Item Description
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).
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD9, NTSC region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby 5.1.
Audience
Not rated.
Production Credits
Music, Eric Slabiak ; director of photography, Rémy Chevrin ; editor, Joéle Van Effenterre.