They buried the footage. The historians dug it back up. You won't believe what was 'officially erased.'
These previously unseen images bear witness to the darkest hours of our history and their lives. They have never before been shown to the general public. Officially, they do not exist. Without the patient efforts of persistent historians and archivists, they would still be lying dormant in family archives...
Editing
Patient assembly—archival resurrection as narrative art.
Direction
Miquel refuses spectacle; lets footage testify.
Director
Stéphane Miquel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
French archival law until 2015 classified most WWII footage as 'sensitive to national security,' not historical record.
Torreton recorded narration in a single six-hour session, refusing breaks—called it 'the least I could owe them.'
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