- THE EXHIBITION
- Foreword
- John Ford and the beginning
of the FPB - George Stevens and
the Special Coverage Unit - The SPECOU enters Dachau
- Samuel Fuller, between
documentary and fiction - Nuremberg: collecting
pictures as evidence - AROUND THE EXHIBITION
- Cycles of films, lectures
- Filmography
- VISITING INFORMATION
Cycles of films, lectures
March 10th, 7:30 pm
Screening - inaugural meeting
"Falkenau, vision of the impossible" Samuel Fuller t mounds.
From
(France, documentary, 1988, 52min, Michkan World Productions and Doriane Films)
With the support of the Foundation for the Holocaust
In May 1945, the first infantry division of the army and army fought their last battle in Europe, in the South, in Soviet Russia, and finally at the Falkenau concentration camp. Grace, a mother sent to him, his father, Samuel Fuller, a member of this "Big Red One", is filming this piece.
1988: after a short introduction about the filming conditions and the preparation of the camp’s lib ration, Samuel Fuller commented on this unique document. For having been very unaware of what was happening in the camp, the notables of the village of Falkenau will have to give a lesson to the interns. Samuel Fuller also wonders about the use of images, about the possibility to perceive the concentration camp universe and about the need to transmit its message to young people.
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March 11th, 8 pm
Meeting screenings
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
From
(Great Britain and the USA, documentary, 1996, 55 min, vostf, British Film Institute)
With
This documentary traces the journey of
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March 14th, 2 pm
Projection
The Diary of Anne Frank
From
(USA, fiction, 1959, 171 min, vostf, 20th Century Fox)
With
For her 13th birthday, on 12 June 1942, Anne Frank receives a diary in which she writes her daily life: Kitty, her imaginary confidante. On July 6, to protect themselves against moths, the Frank family goes into hiding. At the last building of an office building, their lives are organized but, two years later, they will be arrested on August 4, 1944.
The director insists, in the last moments of the film, that when Anne leaves the clandestine apartment she calls the Annex, she should leave the newspaper on her work table. She wants her friend Miep to find him and for him to take on the dimension of modeling.
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6 pm
Screening-meeting
The Big Red One
From
(USA, fiction, 1980, 113 min, vostf, Warner)
With
Inspired by the memories of Samuel Fuller, The Big Red One shows the commitment of four young GI’s and their sergeant in the prestigious "Big Red One" (the first infantry division of the army) since the beginning of the United States until the liberation of the Falkenau camp.
Each character, Griff the sensitive, Vinci the cunning one, Johnson the innocent, and Zab the crivain, the journalist cigar smoker (the most alter ego of the character), finally the sergeant, a death figure, feel fragments of Fuller’s personality.
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March 16th, 7 pm
Screening-meeting
George Stevens: A filmmaker’s Journey
From
(USA, documentary, 1984-85, 90 min, vostf, American Broadcasting Company, Creative Film Center)
R cit of the life and work of American historian George Stevens, is revealed by his son. It shows, among other things, that his involvement in the army during the Second World War changed his career deeply.
Followed by:
George Stevens: D Day to Berlin
From
(USA, documentary, 1994, 46 min, vostf, New Liberty Productions)
While the cameramen placed under his direction recorded views of the Normandy advance to Berlin, George Stevens captured, personally and with a 16mm camera in color, everyday or exceptional moments of this unique adventure.
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March 18th, 7 pm
Meeting screenings
Death Mills
From
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(USA, 1945, documentary, 22 min, b&w, vosta, U.S. Army Signal Corps)
This film was shown to Germans and Austrians during the Nazi campaign of 1946-1948. Combining Sovi tic, Polish, but also American sources, it shows what the Alli covered during the liberation of the camps.
Memory of the camps
From
(Great Britain, 1985, documentary, 56 min, b&w, vostf, Frontline)
This documentary was created in 1945, at the initiative of the British Ministry of Information and the American War Intelligence Office. For its creation, Sidney Bernstein, who benefited from the advice of Alfred Hitchcock, placed the montage of images from the camps at Buchenwald, Dachau, and Bergen-Belsen under the register of the v rit, of the plan-s.
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March 22nd, 7 pm
Meeting screenings
Majdanek : Scimitar re of Europe (Majdanek, Cmetarzysko Europy)
Aleksander Ford
(Poland/Ussr, 1944, documentary, 21 min, vosta, Filmoteka Narodowa)
Tourn, during t. 44, at the time of the liberation of the Majdanek camp, this film is r alsi by a double team: the very young film studio of the Polish army, "Wytwórnia Filmowej Wojska Polskiego," then directed by the Polish Jewish director Aleksander Ford, and Le Studio central du cin ma documentaire, directed by Roman Karmen, a major Russian Jewish journalist and documentary filmmaker.
The Cross
From
(Poland, Ussr, 1945, documentary, 20 min, b&w, vo, Filmoteka Narodowa)
The production of the six SS guards and captor kapos in Lublin, at the end of November 1944. A rare film, shown for the first time in France.
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Edmond J.Safra
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