Journal de Rivesaltes 1941-42
Switzerland, August 1997
FILM,
Documentary,
75 min.
- directed by
- Jacqueline Veuve
- Written by
- Jacqueline Veuve
- Status
- In distribution
During the Second World War, Friedel Bohny-Reiter, a Swiss Red Cross nurse with the “Children’s Relief” service, worked in the camp at Rivesaltes, which like many others in France held Jews, gypsies and people of Spanish origin who either lived in France or had come as refugees to the free zone. Thanks to this young nurse from Basle, many children were saved from certain death in Auschwitz. The film attempts to tell her story with the help of the diary she kept religiously through all those dark years, interpolating interviews with some of those she saved.
credits
- World Premiere
- August 1997
- Original Version
- French (english/german subtitles), colour, Beta SP, 75 min.
- Production
- Ciné Manufacture CMS SA, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
- Producer
- Robert Boner
- directed by
- Jacqueline Veuve
- Written by
- Jacqueline Veuve (based on the diary by Friedel Bohny-Reiter)
- Cinematography
- Thomas Wüthrich, Edwin Horak
- Editing
- Fernand Melgar
- Music
- Thierry Fervant
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- SAGA Production Sàrl
Worldwide Distribution
- France
- Doc. Diffusion France Distribution
- Switzerland
- JMH Distributions SA Distribution
Awards
(a selection)
- Solothurn, Bundesamt für Kultur, Swiss Film Award, Best Documentary Film 1998 (Winner)
Festivals
(a selection)
-
Solothurn, 50. Solothurner Filmtage
22.01.2015 - 29.01.2015 -
29. Französische Filmtage Tübingen
31.10.2012 - 07.11.2012 -
Kiev, 29 Kiev Int. Film Festival Molodist
23.10.1999 - 31.10.1999 -
44. Semana Internacional de Cine
22.10.1999 - 30.10.1999 -
43. Semana Internacional de Cine
23.10.1998 - 31.10.1998 -
Nyon, 29e Festival Int. du Cinéma Documentaire
20.04.1998 - 26.04.1998 -
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minneapolis/St. Paul Int. Film Festival
17.04.1998 - 02.05.1998 -
Berlin, 28. Internationales Forum des Jungen Films
11.02.1998 - 22.02.1998 -
Amsterdam, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
26.11.1997 - 04.12.1997 -
Locarno, 50. Festival internazionale del film
06.08.1997 - 16.08.1997
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Munich, 12. Int. Dokumentarfilm Festival
24.04.1997 - 04.05.1997