ONCE IN A LIFETIME
(orig. LES HÉRITIERS)
France 2014
Language: French
Subtitles: German
Director: Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
Camera: Myriam Vinocour
Script: Ahmed Dramé, Marie Castille Mention-Schaar
Editor: Benoit Quinon
Cast: Ariane Ascaride, Geneviéve Mnich, Ahmed Dramé
Producer: Pierre Kubel, Marie Castille Mention-Schaar
Distributer: Neue Visionen
Lenght: 105 Min
Color: Farbe
Age Limit: <
”You`ve got no chance, so use it”: this motto from Herbert Achternbusch can be applied to this film. In a mixture of comedy and melodrama, Marie Castille Mention-Schaar relates of year 11 in a school from Creteil whose course of life seems to predestine them to being losers. However, the committed teacher of history, Anne Gueguen, signs up the class for a competition in which the school pupils are to depict the fate of the Jewish children who were deported from France between 1942-1944. At first the youngsters are reluctant but later enthusiastic and seize the opportunity and learn what solidarity and empathy mean.
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