| Title |
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. |
| OCLC |
ocn951824295 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
855114005263 |
| Music number |
BGP526 Breaking Glass Pictures |
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BGP2296 Unobstructed View Inc. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia, PA : Breaking Glass Pictures, [2016] |
| Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 104 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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4 3/4 in. rda |
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digital optical surround Dolby Digital 5.1 rda |
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widescreen (1.85:1) 24 fps rda |
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NTSC rda |
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video file DVD video Region 1 rda |
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Motion pictures lcgft |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Drama.
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Holocaust survivors -- Drama.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany -- Drama.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Drama.
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Female friendship -- Drama.
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Reunions -- Drama.
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Other
Genre heading/s |
Feature films.
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Historical films.
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Fiction films.
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| System details note |
DVD9, NTSC region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby 5.1. |
| Source of Description |
Title from disc surface. |
| Cast |
Julie Depardieu, Johanna ter Steege, Suzanne Clément, Hippolyte Girardot, Mathias Mlekuz, Benjamin Wangermée. |
| Creation/Production credits |
Music, Eric Slabiak ; director of photography, Rémy Chevrion ; editor, Joéle Van Effenterre. |
| Target audience |
Not rated. |
| 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. |
| Language note |
In French with English subtitles. |
| General note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2014. |
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Widescreen (1.85:1). |
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DVD exclusive: Irène et ses Soeurs, the documentary by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, whose real life mother inspired the film (French with English Subtitles). |
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