- Summary
- An aging Holocaust survivor returns after 60 years to the site of the infamous concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Birkenau translates into English as "a birch-tree meadow") to relive memories of those terrible days. There, she meets another sightseer, a young German photographer whose grandfather had been an SS colonel who played a major role in organizing this and other camps.
- Variant Title
- Birch tree meadow
- Format
- Video
- Published
- [France] : Studio Canal, [2004]
©2004
- Other Authors/Editors
- Loridan-Ivens, Marceline, 1928-2018.
Lesage, Bénédicte.
Askénazi, Ariel.
Sarde, Alain, 1952-
Prasetyo, Elisabeth D.
Sergent, Jean-Pierre.
Moreau, Jeanne, 1928-2017.
Aimée, Anouk, 1932-
Diehl, August, 1976-
Maurier, Claire.
Cine Valse (Firm)
Mascaret Films.
Capi Films.
P'Artisan Filmproduktion.
Heritage Films (Firm : Warsaw, Poland)
Studio Canal.
- Notes
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003.
Special features: photos with director commentary; interviews with Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Simone Veil and Elisabeth D. Prasetyo; trailer.
Director of photography, Emmanuel Machuel ; editor, Catherine Quesemand.
Anouk Aimée, August Diehl, Claire Maurier.
DVD9 video, Region 2 PAL, Dolby digital 5.1, Dolby stereo, 16/9 comp. 4/3.
In French, English and Polish with optional English subtitles (feature only).
