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SECOND SHORT FILM SERIES – SUNDAY, MARCH 31 – 8:00 AM – 19 MIN – ALL AUDIENCES
Presentation by and discussion with French screenwriter and producer Robert Boublil, music composer Boris Boubil and producer Geeske Boublil
You, tell . . . is a triptych. Three stories about death and resurrection. Three stories of children whose lives were devastated by their Nazi tormentors and their accomplices.
First, the piece opens showcasing a morning in the life of Abraham, the soliloquy of a man who has survived the Nazi death camps. Invited, sixty years later, to talk about his experience, he does not want, he cannot tell what he has seen, what he has lived through. Nobody would believe him…
Then we hear the voice of ten year-old Jeanne who recounts the story of Rachel, another young girl who escaped twice from the infamous Vichy police before being persecuted by a French family. Suddenly, something appears in her life, which revives her desire to live and offers the young girl a way to connect with her lost father.
Last, it is the story of five years old Maurice, who died in his mother’s arms in the train taking them to Auschwitz. Back for a while among the living, Maurice asks another young boy to tell his story, because himself can no longer do so.
Based on Robert Boublil’s poems The Accordion, We Won’t Talk About It and You, Tell My Story.
Synopsis
The Accordion
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Rachel Jedinak, an eight-year-old girl taken twice in a Nazi round up, has miraculously succeeded in escaping and surviving through the memories she has kept of her assassinated parents.
DIRECTOR Jean Marc Culiersi
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Pierre Larribe
SCREENWRITER Robert Boublil
Based on Robert Boublil’s poem L’Accordéon
MUSIC COMPOSER Boris Boublil
PRODUCERS Mémo Arts
STARRING Rachel Jedinak, Jeanne Torreton, India Boublil, Boris Boublil, Emma Boublil, Léa Boublil, Anne-Cécile Declercq
RUNNING TIME 12 min
We Won’t Talk About It
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Abraham, who survived the death camps, is getting ready to recount his ordeal after sixty years of silence.
DIRECTOR Jean-Marc Culiersi
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Pierre Larribe
SCREENWRITER Robert Boublil
Based on Robert Boublil’s poem Nous n’en parlerons pas
MUSIC COMPOSER Boris Boublil
PRODUCERS Mémo Arts
STARRING : Michel Kornfeld
RUNNING TIME : 7 min
TELL ME MY STORY
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At the age of five, Maurice is arrested with his family during the Vel d’Hiv Roundup, where 13,152 Jews were arrested by French police in Paris during the summer of 1942. He counts on Simon, friend from a future time, to relate his story . . .
DIRECTORS Gregory Shepard and François Combin
SCREENWRITERS Robert Boublil
Based on Robert Boublil’s poem Raconte mon histoire
MUSIC COMPOSER Boris Boublil
PRODUCERS Robert Boublil et Geeske Boublil
VOICE Philippe Torreton
STARRING Oberon Boublil, Simon Torreton, Marion Corrales, Vaidehi Nota, Jeanne Torreton, India Boublil
RUNNING TIME 6 min
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