"Free Swimming" by Thierry Lasheras Screening-debate in Montpellier
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 6 PM
(France, documentary, 52 min, Eva Production / France 3 Sud-Ouest, 2017. With the support of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah)
In preview
Fabien Gilot, a famous European, world and Olympic swimming medalist, returns to the footsteps of Alfred Nakache, French champion swimmer in 1942 and deported to Auschwitz in 1943 where he is forced to swim in the cold waters of a water retention basin to entertain the Nazis.
Fabien Gilot sets out to discover this hero who participated after the war in the London Olympic Games in 1948.
In the presence of the director.
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