French Resistance Heroine Heading to the Oscars?
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Joining me on the podcast today are Alice Doyard and Anthony Giacchino to discuss their film Colette: The french resistance fighter confronting fascism which has been shortlisted for the Oscars 2021 in the Documentary Short category. The documentary tells the story of Colette Marin-Catherine who was part of the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of France in the Second World War. 90-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine confronts her past by visiting for the first time the German concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora where her brother, also a resistance member, was killed. The trip opens old wounds and provides powerful lessons for us all even after the passing of so many years. Alice and Anthony talk about the process of meeting and working with Colette and what the project meant to them as filmmakers.
I would thoroughly recommend you watch this powerful piece of work and you can do so by clicking this link: http://theguardian.com/colette
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. |
| 0:05.8 | As you know, we like making videos here at History Hit. |
| 0:07.9 | We got the world's best History Channel. |
| 0:09.4 | For example, history.tv, go and check it out, sure you will. |
| 0:12.6 | And I wanted to celebrate the work done by a friend and colleague of mine, Alice Doyard, |
| 0:17.0 | who is a French producer. |
| 0:18.5 | She hooked up with the American filmmaker Anthony Jetino and they met a remarkable woman, |
| 0:24.5 | a French resistance veteran, the 90-year-old, Kelett-Marcatherin. |
| 0:29.2 | And she took them on a journey, really, across Europe and into her own past. |
| 0:33.6 | It's a great short film. |
| 0:34.9 | It has been shortlisted for the Oscars in the documentary short category. |
| 0:40.8 | And you can watch it if you follow the information in the link to this podcast or I'll be |
| 0:45.3 | tweeting it out as well. |
| 0:46.6 | It's on the Guardian Films website. |
| 0:48.8 | I want to ask the two filmmakers about their experience working with Kelett and what |
| 0:53.7 | the film meant to them to make. |
| 0:55.7 | It's a fantastic film, please go and check it out. |
| 0:57.6 | Good luck at the Oscars and as ever, just as a reminder of the extraordinary people that |
| 1:03.4 | are living amongst us every day, both veterans of the Second World War, but also witnesses |
| 1:08.5 | to history, participants in history from all sorts of periods ever since. |
| 1:14.4 | If you want to come watch one of these podcast recorded live, we're traveling all over Britain. |
| 1:18.1 | We'll be in a city near you and you can come and check it out. |
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