FOLLOWING ALBERT - ENGLISH
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes
Subtitles: English
You will receive an MP4 file (4 GB)
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I never knew Albert Balay, my paternal grandfather. Serge, my father, never knew him either. I never got the full story of Albert's disappearance but I heard bits and pieces of it, fragments of stories and anecdotes that ended up sedimenting in me.
Gendarme, Resistance fighter, tortured, deported, death in deportation... certainties and unknowns intertwined.
I always saw his photograph alongside Elisabeth, my grandmother, hanging on the wall in her home. Now that I'm starting to make this film, I'm discovering that there are a lot of letters, photos and personal or official documents that my grandmother had preciously preserved.
Transmitting a story is not just about showing photographs with incomplete captions. The transmission requires something more substantial and more accomplished: a family journey in Albert's footsteps.
With this film, I want to assemble the fragments of the story and reconstruct the puzzle to get as close as possible to the man who was my grandfather, this man who enlightened our lives.
