"Nage Libre" by Thierry Lasheras Screening-debate in Montpellier
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 6 p.m.
(France, documentary, 52 minutes, Eva Production / France 3 Sud-Ouest, 2017. With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah)
In preview
Fabien Gilot, a famous European, world and Olympic medalist swimmer, is following in the footsteps of Alfred Nakache, French swimming champion in 1942 and deported to Auschwitz in 1943 where he was forced to swim in the cold waters of a water retention basin to entertain the Nazis.
Fabien Gilot goes to discover this hero who participated after the war in the Olympic Games in London in 1948.
In the presence of the director.
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