72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Falkenau, vision de l'impossible / FALKENAU, THE IMPOSSIBLE

Emil Weiss
     52 m.
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May 1945 saw North America's First Infantry Division, alias the Big Red One, win its last European battle in the Czechoslovakian Sudete mountains on freeing the prisoners from Falkenau concentration camp (Czechoslovakia). The then Corporal Samuel Fuller, later to become a famous film director, took part in the battle and filmed the event. After an introduction explaining the conditions in which the movie was shot and the freeing of the camp itself, Fuller narrates the twenty minutes of images without sound which he had filmed forty years earlier.
Director
Emil Weiss
Screenplay
Emil Weiss, Samuel Fuller
Photography
Pierre Boffeti
Edition
Pascale Suer
Music
Teddy Lasry
Running Time
52 m.
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