Co-production
1975, in a community apartment, somewhere in the USSR. In the middle of drying laundry, a dozen women tell a journalist their unusual story. For good reason, they are former "front girls", veterans of the Great Patriotic War, which opposed the Soviet Union to Nazi Germany. Between 1941 and 1945, nearly 800,000 women took up arms to defend their country. Too little known, this story is the work of the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievitch, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015. While history and war are generally told by men, this choral piece offers a new perspective, between thirst for life and emancipation. In the background, she also questions the status of women, perpetually challenged...
Warning: Some scenes include descriptions of physical and sexual abuse.
Around the show
Audiodescription Wed. April 29, 8 PM
Directed and performed by Valérie Castan
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The Eye of Melies A film echoing the show
April 30, 8 PM
Cinema Le méliès, Villeneuve d'Ascq
Be Natural, the hidden story of Alice Guy-Blaché
American film by Pamela B. Green
This documentary highlights Alice Guy-Blaché, the first female director, producer and studio director, who has been completely invisibilized...