One-off
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Producer(s):
ZADIG PRODUCTIONS, ARTE FRANCE
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Territories:
Worldwide (except Italy and Italian-speaking Switzerland).
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Production year:
2018
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Language(s):
German, English, French
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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).