La petite prairie aux bouleaux (2003)

Note des utilisateurs:

6.6/10   

Réalisateur:

Marceline Loridan Ivens

Writers:

Marceline Loridan Ivens (writer)
Jeanne Moreau (writer)
(suite)

Release Date:

12 novembre 2003 (France)

Genre:

Drame

Awards:

2 wins

Avis des utilisateurs:

Merveilleux!

Ensemble

Anouk Aimée	...	Myriam
August Diehl	...	Oskar
Marilu Marini	...	Suzanne
Zbigniew Zamachowski	...	Gutek
Claire Maurier	...	Ginette
Monique Couturier	...	Rachel
Nathalie Nerval	...	Vieille femme
Élise Otzenberger	...	Sarah
Keren Marciano	...	Nourith
Mireille Perrier	...	Femme à Auschwitz
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Artur Dziurman	...	Portier
Dorota Liliental
Anna Radwan

Réalisé par
Marceline Loridan Ivens		(as Marceline Loridan-Ivens)

Scénaristes (in alphabetical order)
Marceline Loridan Ivens		writer (as Marceline Loridan-Ivens)
Jeanne Moreau		writer
Elisabeth D. Prasetyo		writer
Jean-Pierre Sergent		writer

Produit par
Ariel Askénazi	....	producer
Bénédicte Lesage	....	producer
Alain Sarde	....	producer
Peter Sehr	....	co-producer

Image
Emmanuel Machuel

Montage
Catherine Quesemand

Distribution des rôles
Philippe Page

Création des décors
Dorota Ignaczak

Création des costumes
Malgorzata Gwiazdecka
Chouchane Tcherpachian		(as Chouchane Abello-Tcherpachian)

Directeur de production
Georges Barrier-Carron	....	assistant unit manager
Olivier Rechou	....	production manager

Assistant réalisateur
Fabien Vergez	....	assistant director

Art Department
Waldemar Weiss	....	construction coordinator

Technicien du son
Pascal Despres	....	boom operator
Michael Hinreiner	....	sound re-recording mixer
Paul Lainé	....	sound
Dominique Vieillard	....	sound editor
Dominique Vieillard	....	sound mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Alice Capronnier	....	first assistant camera

Production Companies

• Capi Films
• Ciné Valse
• Heritage Films
• Mascaret Films
• P'Artisan Filmproduktion GmbH

Distributors

• Academy Films Stuttgart/Ludwigsburg (2004) (Germany) (theatrical)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Birkenau und Rosenfeld (Germany)
The Birch-Tree Meadow (International: English title)

Durée:

Germany:91 min (Berlin Film Festival)

Pays:

France | Germany | Poland

Langue:

Français | Polonais | Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Son:

Dolby

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Kraków, Poland

Company:

Capi Films

Merveilleux!

Really outstanding, gripping movie - excellent in every way. I rarely give 10s or 1s, but this is definitely a 10.

The movie opens with an Auschwitz Survivor's Association meeting, a sort of "class reunion" type gathering where people are joking and reminiscing, etc. Quickly, the tone changes when wounds are opened and one woman returns to the scene of the crime, to relive it in her mind. She unexpectedly meets a young German man who is photographing the place, making an archaological record of it. He meets her and wants to join her trip down memory lane. It gets more and more interesting, with a great deal of psychological complexity throughout.

The only thing I would change is the ending. I won't say what happens, but she needed to remember the letter. It would have been better punctuated, as a story. Beautiful cinematography, writing, acting, the whole bit. Outstanding!