Le lien (2007)
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Marthe Keller, Juliette Lamboley, Jacques Frantz, Jacques Spiesser, Olivia Brunaux, Benjamin Wangermee
In 1959 Bordeaux, a Jewish schoolteacher rebuilding her life discovers that one of her pupils is the daughter of the militiaman who rounded up her family.
The story
In Bordeaux in 1959, Eva, a 55-year-old Jewish schoolteacher, is trying to rebuild her life after witnessing her family’s roundup during the Second World War, fifteen years earlier. Her family was deported to Auschwitz, and she believes she is the sole survivor. Then she discovers that Sylvie Meunier, one of her pupils, is the daughter of the militiaman responsible for the roundup.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In Bordeaux in 1959, Eva, a 55-year-old Jewish schoolteacher, is trying to rebuild her life after witnessing the roundup of her family during the Second World War, fifteen years earlier. Her family was deported to Auschwitz. Eva believes she is the sole survivor of the tragedy until she discovers that one of her pupils, Sylvie Meunier, is the daughter of the militiaman responsible for the roundup. Putting the clues together, she comes to realize that Sylvie is none other than Sarah, her granddaughter, whom she thought had disappeared along with the rest of her family, and whom Meunier abducted in order to raise as his own child…
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