The film turns on Ferault-Levy’s family and their struggle to survive as her uncle, Edouard Rosenblatt, is born in hiding in a Polish stable in 1944, shortly before his father's execution. His mother later immigrated to France to marry Ferault-Levy’s grandfather. The film follows a return to Poland to build a cenotaph, an empty grave to pay tribute to a Holocaust victim.
Ferault-Levy, who wants to provoke an "uncomfortable conversation of high importance for society and post-war families," is shooting in France, Israel and for 12 days locations in Poland, including Krakow and Auschwitz on a budget reported as about 167,000 EUR.
France's Bix Films (www.bixfilms.fr) is coproducing with BIP TV (www.bip-tv.fr) and Poland's Camera Obscura. Cenotaphe won financial support from the Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl), Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (www.cnc.fr), Procirep et Engoa, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (www.fondationshoah.org) , Region Alsace (www.region-alsace.eu) and the city of Strasbourg.
Cenotaphe premiere is scheduled for May 2013.
Crew:
Director: Leila Ferault-Levy
Cinematographer: Olivier Bertrand
Sound: Fabien Krzyzanowsky
Production Manager (Poland) Adriana Kulig
Cast:
Eodouard Rosenblatt
Production Contact:
Camera Obscura: Marcin Latallo
ul. Foksal 12/14 m.33
00-366 Warszawa
Adriana Kulig
Phone: +48 22 8383962
Mobile Phone: +48 600 824 353
