Exceptional broadcast of the film 'Life and Destiny of the Black Book. The Destruction of the Jews of the USSR' by Guillaume Ribot
Thursday 3 December
preview broadcast, from 12pm to 00h
Life and Fate of the Black Book. The Destruction of the Jews of the USSR by Guillaume Ribot
France, documentary, 92 min, Les films du poisson, 2019.
During the Second World War, Russian writers gathered around Ilya Ehrenbourg and Vassili Grossman documented the destruction of the Jews in the Soviet territories conquered by the Nazis in an unpublished work, the Black Book. But the manuscript is finally not published and its authors are hunted down, murdered or muzzled by the Stalinist authorities. Despite the 3 million deaths, half of the victims of the Holocaust, the memory of events is erased from official history, until the dislocation of the USSR where the manuscript is found and published by Ehrenbourg’s daughter.
A few words about Guillaume Ribot:
Guillaume Ribot, 49 years old, is a photographer-director-author. After studying photography and art history, he quickly devoted himself to press photography. His work as a reporter and on the Holocaust has been published in national and international press (Time, Paris-Match, Marianne, Le Monde, New York Times...). He accompanied, for more than 4 years, as a photographer and field coordinator, the work on the mass shootings of Jews in the East conducted by Father Patrick Desbois in Ukraine and Belarus. His photographs on this theme have been the subject of exhibitions at the Shoah Memorial and the Jewish Heritage Museum in New York. For more than 20 years, he has devoted most of his work to memory. Life and destiny of the Black Book is his third documentary film about the Shoah. In 2017, he directed Treblinka – I am the last Jew according to the testimony of Chil Rajchman. Two years earlier, he made The Notebook of Susi, a documentary that traces the journey of a young foreign Jewish girl through her schoolgirl’s notebook found in a drawer at his great-uncle’s house.
A few words about Antoine Germa:
Antoine Germa, 46 years old, is a text worker, both screenwriter, playwright, author and radio columnist. Agrégé d'histoire, he taught for ten years at the lycée Alfred Nobel of Clichy-sous-Bois in Seine Saint Denis, before producing radio documentaries for France Culture and being a columnist and reporter on France Inter. He has been in charge of programming at the Forum des Images de Paris since 2000. Screenwriter, he wrote for cinema, short and feature films, with, among others, directors Nader Takmil Homayoun and Francis Reusser. He is also the co-author of documentaries—notably animation — directed by Rafaël Lewandowski, Hendrick Dussolier and Colombian Juan José Lozano. In 2011, he is with the historian Evelyne Patlagean and Benjamin Lellouch, the director of the collective work Les Juifs dans l'Histoire: De la naissance du judaïsme au monde contemporain, published by Champ Vallon1, a historic sum bringing together thirty specialists both French and foreign. He also coordinated number 195 of the Revue d'histoire de la Shoah ("Les écrans de la Shoah").
With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
