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À la vie
Title:
À la vie
Author:
Zilbermann, Jean-Jacques, screenwriter, film director.
Publication Information:
Philadelphia, PA : Breaking Glass Pictures, [2016]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
General Note:
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).
Language:
French
Reading Level:
Not rated.
Geographic Term:
Added Corporate Author:
Added Uniform Title:
Container of (work): Irène et ses Soeurs.
UPC:
855114005263

778854229693
Format :
DVD