Documentary
History
WWII
80'
FRENCH CAMPS
How many of us now know that between November 1938 and May 1946, 600 thousand people suffered confinement through simple administrative decision? None of these people had committed a crime or any offence, the only reason that made them prisoners was the fact that they supposedly represented potential danger to the State or to society. They were many to populate French camps: Spanish Republicans, Germans and Austrians, French Communists, to whom were soon added foreign Jews or Gypsies, and later, at the Liberation, in majority suspected collaborationists but also, which is of less common knowledge, black market traffickers and also German civilians.
Director: Jorge Amat
Screenplay : Denis Peschanski, author of "La France des camps, 1938-1946" Editions Gallimard
Montage Urszula Lesiak
Original music Jean-Louis Valero
A co-production of Compagnie des Phares et Balises & CNRS Images
With the participation of France Télévisions France 2
With the support of the Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah, the Département des Pyrénées-Orientales, the Ministry of Defence, the CNC and Procirep
National Broadcaster : France 2
International Sales :
Planète + France
Red Media Group Russia
Spiegel TV Germany
Planète + Canada
Slovak TV Slovenia
© Cie des Phares & Balises – CNRS Images – 2009
