Les Alsaciens - Ou les deux Mathilde

original title:
Les Alsaciens - Ou les deux Mathilde
other titles:
(Die Elsässer)
country / year of production:
France , Germany / 1996
original length:
4x86 min. , color
premiere:
11 October 1996, Arte
genre:
history film
based on:
director:
Michel Favart
film script:
Michel Deutsch , Henri de Turenne
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cast (role):
Cécile Bois , Aurore Clément , Jean-Pierre Miquel
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plot synopsis:
This film tells the story of an Alsatian industrialist familiy between 1870 and 1953. The family goes through both World Wars and is influenced by them.
keywords:
made-for-TV film , family on both sides of the front , fascism , war-profiteers , women during wartime , youth during wartime
war:
First World War (1914-1918)
literature:
Kurt Hochstuhl. Zwischen Frieden und Krieg: Das Elsaß in den Jahren 1938-1940. Ein Beitrag zu d. Problemen einer Grenzregion in Krisenzeiten. Frankfurt a.M.: P. Lang, 1984.
remarks:
Won the "Adolf Grimme Award" in 1997.
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