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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
C�cile Clairval
Script :
C�cile Clairval
Photography :
Philippe Marchais
Editor :
Fran�oise Belleville
Cast :
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DRANCY, LAST STOP BEFORE THE ABYSS...
In a northern suburb of Paris sits the abandoned station of Bobigny, from which trains with cattle cars transported Jewish prisoners of Drancy to the extermination camps of Auschwitz, Majdanek and Sobibor. Opened on August 20, 1941, the Drancy camp was the only one in France whose prisoners were solely Jews or those so designated by the Vichy government. From March 1942 to August 1944, 76,174 Jews, more than 11,000 of them children, were shipped off to destinations unknown under the cover of Nacht und Nebel ("night and fog"). This tragic episode, for a long time hidden to history, is exposed by the testimony of the survivors or those they left behind.
C�cile Clairval
After studying at the Conservatoire national sup�rieur d'art dramatique, C�cile Clairval began her career directing in the theatre. She wrote and produced for French television, and has directed numerous short films and documentaries, including Chant profond (1973), ALBERT CAMUS (1974), Faire la vie (1981), �nigme (1983), Par la force des choses (1986), Roger Vaillant, le jeu et la passion (2000) and Au coeur de la cit� (2001).
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