The Children of Chabannes
by Dean Wetherell
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Actor: Collette Dony-Pascal, Jerry Gerard, Norbert Bikales, Rene Castille, Wolfie BlumenreichDirector: Dean Wetherell
Brand: New Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Video Group
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- In the spirit of Louis Malle s "Au Revoir les Enfants" and Stephen Spielberg s Schindler s List, the Emmy® Award-winning film THE CHILDREN OF CHABANNES has been praised as splendid, informative and emotionally involving (Los Angeles Times) and called a seamless memoir of courage and a tribute to the human spirit. (New York Daily News). A magical World War II tale of resilience and love, TH
Movie Reviews of The Children of Chabannes
Movie Review: A Luminous Time
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Chateau of Charbannes" exemplifies the light of human spirit when surrounded by encompassing evil. Despite the horrors of war, persecution and justifiable fear of punishment, a band of dedicated French heros and heroines successfully demonstrated their belief in the equality of all people, by working to save hundreds of Jewish refugee children in the village of Charbannes, once part of Vichy France. In the film, one of the OSE rescuers describes the period of the chateau as "a luminous time."
In the 1940's, Charbannes was a rural village of modest farmers known for their "republican" sentiments and their stolid disbelief in the exhortations of Vichy propaganda. All of the Jewish children who were housed, fed and schooled in the Chateau of Charbannes were refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. Some of them had narrowly escaped concentration camps in Germany. At the chateau, they led a safe, nurtured existence until 1943, when the inevitable quotas for death camp transport were issued in earnest by the Vichy regime. Despite the available depth of Holocaust literature, one cannot fail to feel shock and dismay at hearing the Charbannes rescuers and survivors recall how Vichy officials demanded exhaustive details concerning innocent, traumatized Jewish orphans. To the everlasting honor of the OSE staff and French teachers at Charbannes, the children of the chateau were dispersed by the Charbonnes rescuers into the local forests and later guided to refuge elsewhere.
"The Chateau of Charbannes" is a wholly uplifting and successful work, laden with the gleam of the French rescurers, teachers and refugee children who went on to live productive, meaningful lives. The film's narrative is unsentimental and honest, composed of interviews with the surviving teachers and students of Charbannes. The closing film credits list Eli Wiesel as one of the films advisers, which for me, bears witness to its authenticity as Holocaust memorial. This excellent film can and should be shown to young and old alike as an inspiring example of enlightenment and courage in a dark time. Highly, highly recommended.
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