Le Silence et la douleur (2016) Directed by Patrick Séraudie
Documentary
Film Synopsis
9th June 1944 was a dark day for the French town of Tulle. It was on
this day that 99 men were hung from balconies and 149 others were deported
by the second division of the SS Das Reich. The day after, the same
division would commit an even greater atrocity on their way east, massacring
practically the entire population of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane - 642
men, women and children. The filmmaker Patrick Séraudie returns
to Tulle on this sombre anniversary and finds that the town still carries
the terrible memory of that awful day in June 1944. He interviews those
who witnessed the executions and representatives of the generations that
followed, perhaps in the hope of helping to exorcise the horror and the pain
that still hangs over the town...
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