The Camp at Rivesaltes/Le Dernier Jour a Rivesaltes
By Helena Michie
2008/2009 (25 mins) French/English/Arabic/Basque/Catalan/Spanish
This film uses a single poem, interpreted in different languages, to give a voice to the souls who suffered or died at the Camp at Rivesaltes between 1941 and 1970 or who were deported from there to the death camps and those interned there in the 1960s following the Evian Accords, the settlement which ended the Algerian War for Independence. It thereby becomes a universal symbol for an enduring theme: that of the displacement of peoples through conflict.
Synopsis
On the eve of its demolition, Sylvia Ruth Gutmann, a camp survivor, revisits the abandoned Camp Joffre at Rivesaltes in southern France where she was imprisoned as a child of three in 1942. Day passes as we witness with her a last evocation of the life in this troubled place haunted by painful personal and collective memory.
By Helena Michie
2008/2009 (25 mins) French/English/Arabic/Basque/Catalan/Spanish
This film uses a single poem, interpreted in different languages, to give a voice to the souls who suffered or died at the Camp at Rivesaltes between 1941 and 1970 or who were deported from there to the death camps and those interned there in the 1960s following the Evian Accords, the settlement which ended the Algerian War for Independence. It thereby becomes a universal symbol for an enduring theme: that of the displacement of peoples through conflict.
Synopsis
On the eve of its demolition, Sylvia Ruth Gutmann, a camp survivor, revisits the abandoned Camp Joffre at Rivesaltes in southern France where she was imprisoned as a child of three in 1942. Day passes as we witness with her a last evocation of the life in this troubled place haunted by painful personal and collective memory.
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