France 1939: One Last Summer
“A collection of home movies, diaries and letters from the last summer before the start of the Second World War reveals how far the impending conflict was away from the minds of ordinary French people.”
2019•1h 1m•Released
DocumentaryHistory
Gustave Folcher, a French farmer, wrote in his 1939 diary that the summer had been long and hot. He was not alone. Many other anonymous French men and women wrote of the beauty and warmth of those summer months and how threats of war were far from their minds. Through home movies, diaries and letters, One Last Summer describes the final weeks of peace in France and the mix of blindness, denial and prophetic clear-sightedness of those facing the war that was about to unfold.
Director
Ruth Zylberman
Languages
French
Studio
Zadig Productions
Cast
Emmanuel Carrère
Emmanuel Danziger
Jean Echenoz
Joanna Grudzinska
Cyril Levy
Valérie Loiseleux
Jean Mouchard
François Prodromidès
Elsa Revcolevschi
Axelle Ropert
Paul Rozenberg
Olivier Rubinstein
Maxine Spinga
Olmo Beltran-Merveille
Production
Company
Zadig Productions
Producer
Céline Nusse
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