Ruth Zylberman
2021Les enfants du 209, rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe
Ruth Zylberman
After selecting a building at random in a Jewish neighborhood in Paris, French director Ruth Zylberman meticulously reconstructed its community of inhabitants during the German occupation. What results is the spellbinding 209 RUE SAINT-MAUR, an experimental historiography that tells the emotional story of lives uprooted and destroyed under the Nazis.
The Children of 209 Saint-Maur Street
1939, Un Dernier Été
Ruth Zylberman
Emmanuel Carrère, Emmanuel Danziger
Gustave Folcher, a French farmer, wrote in his 1939 diary that the summer had been long and hot. He was not alone. Many other anonymous French men and women wrote of the beauty and warmth of those summer months and how threats of war were far from their minds. Through home movies, diaries and letters, One Last Summer describes the final weeks of peace in France and the mix of blindness, denial and prophetic clear-sightedness of those facing the war that was about to unfold.
France 1939: One Last Summer
