"Freestyle" by Thierry Lasheras In preview
Sunday 19 November 2017 at 3:30 PM
France, documentary, 52 mn, Eva Production / France 3 Sud-Ouest, 2017. With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
© Eva Production.
Fabien Gilot, a famous European, world and Olympic swimming medalist, follows in 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.
As part of the documentary film month 
In the presence of the director Thierry Lasheras, Fabien Gilot (under reservation), and Hubert Strouk, historian.
Moderated by Benoît Heimermann, journalist.
PRICES: 5€/3€
