• Producer(s):

    ZADIG PRODUCTIONS, ARTE FRANCE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide (except Italy and Italian-speaking Switzerland).

  • Production year:

    2018

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

A highly focused and at the same time extremely emotional piece of experimental historiography. The director has reconstructed a house Jewish community during the war in great detail: who lived here? Who knew whom?

Henry Osman, born Henri Ossmann, hardly remembers his parents – not what they looked like, not what they did for a living. Zylberman has brought a pile of paper copies and is able to reconstruct parts of that childhood. The house whose address gave the film its title – and where Osman lived as a small boy – is located in the Jewish district of Paris. Re-enactments with dollhouse furniture and drawn floor plans at the former residents’ kitchen tables alternate with contemporary views of the building as she re-creates this typical Paris building in the Saint-Maur No. 209 as an anachronistic space in which history is still alive, right down to the cobbled courtyard.

2018: Special Honour at FIPA - Documentary section (Biarritz/France). Special Honour of the Historical Documentary Award at the Rendez-Vous of History (Blois/France). 2019: Etoile de la SCAM - Public Award (Paris/France).