CinemaOSMovie · 2019 · 1h 1m

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.

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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.

Directed byRuth Zylberman

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 1m
Language
FR
Released
May 30, 2019
Studios
Zadig Productions

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Danziger

Jean Echenoz

Joanna Grudzinska

Cyril Levy

Valérie Loiseleux

Jean Mouchard

François Prodromidès

Elsa Revcolevschi

Axelle Ropert

Axelle Ropert

Creative team
Directed by
Ruth Zylberman
Produced by
Céline Nusse

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