La Brigade des papiers
The Paper Brigade · 2018
60 min · Documentary, History · French · Belgium, France, Germany, Lithuania
Credits
- Director
- Diane Perelsztejn
- Screenwriter
- Bernard SucheckyDiane Perelsztejn
- Producer
- Olivier RoncinWilly Perelsztejn
- Cinematographer
- Didier Hill-Derive
- Editor
- Marguerite Le Bourgeois
Produced by
- ARTE GEIEFrance · Production
- RTBFBelgium · Production
- Les Films de la MémoireBelgium · Production
- LRTLithuania · Production
- Pois Chiche FilmsFrance · Production
Synopsis
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by the Germans, are gathered in Vilnius to be classified, either to be stored or to be destroyed. A group of Jewish scholars and writers, commissioned by the invaders to carry out the sorting operations, but reluctant to collaborate and determined to save their legacy, hide many books in the ghetto where they are confined. This is the epic story of the Paper Brigade.
Timeline
- 15 March 2018Festival premiere
- 15 March 2018Opened in cinemas
Spoken languages: English, French, German, Hebrew, Yiddish
Also known as La Brigada de Papel: la Shoá y los libros de Vilna · La Brigata di Carta che salvò la cultura Yiddish · Papier-Brigade: Die Shoah und die Bücher von Vilnius · The Paper Brigade: Saving Yiddish Culture in Vilnius
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