Birkenau and Rosenfeld

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Movie
German title Birkenau and Rosenfeld
Original title La Petite prairie aux bouleaux
Country of production France ,
Germany ,
Poland
original language French , German ,
Polish
Publishing year 2003
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Marceline Loridan-Ivens
script Jean-Pierre Segent,
Jeanne Moreau ,
Elisabeth D. Prasetyo,
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
production Bénédicte Lesage,
Ariel Askenazi,
Alain Sarde
camera Emmanuel Machuel
cut Catherine Quesenmand
occupation

Birkenau and Rosenfeld is the dramatized story of a re- encounter of a concentration camp victim from Auschwitz-Birkenau with the places of her childhood and the suffering of her family. The film was shot in 2002 at original locations and premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2003. The French film title La petite prairie aux bouleaux and the English title The Birch-Tree Meadow take up the translation of the Polish name of Birken-Aue.

action

The French Myriam, portrayed by Anouk Aimée , returns to the places of her own survival at the age of 15 after more than fifty years. She visits the former apartment of the Rosenfeld family, the Kraków Kazimierz ghetto and Auschwitz, and experiences increasing paranoia.

background

Marceline Loridan-Ivens , who was 75 when the film was released , worked for four decades in the cinematic environment, as a co-director and in other supporting positions. As the wife of the political documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens , she was also his collaborator. In her first directorial work , the concentration camp survivor Loridan-Ivens addresses her own fate in Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the German version, Hannelore Elsner lends her voice to the main character.

criticism

“An autobiographical film about the scandal of survival and the strategies of memory and mourning work, which sometimes comes up with agonizing intensity and coherent impressions, but dilutes these impressions with kitsch and banal artificiality. In secret, the attempt therefore proves to be a decisive plea for the non-fictionalization of a search for clues in extermination camps. "

- Lexicon of International Films

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birkenau and Rosenfeld in the Lexicon of International Films

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