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Director - Michel Deville
Run Time - 94 minutes
Language - French w/English subtitles
Format - DVD, color
Year - 2002
Genre - Foreign drama

Educational Interest- Cinema Studies, Empire Collection, History (World), Jewish Studies, Urban Studies

Institutional DVD Price: $195

 
 
 

Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors.

 

 

"Thoroughly charming, sad, gentle, and funny in the best French tradition of high quality cinema." - Variety

 

"Unlike any other film I have seen about the Holocaust." - Roger Ebert