65 min documentary directed by Stanislas Kraland produced by Imagissime and Mediawan (TF1, 2026)
On June 10, 1944, in Oradour-sur-Glane - a quiet town in the Limousin region - a Waffen-SS company murdered 643 inhabitants (men, women, and children) before setting the village ablaze. It was the largest massacre of civilians committed in France during the Second World War. Only about thirty people survived; among them was Robert Hébras. At the age of 19, having lost his mother and sisters, he had to learn to live again just steps away from the ruins, in a rebuilt village that remembers everything.
This film is not an account of the massacre. It is the story of what it left behind, and of those who still carry it with them - like little Camille Labetoulle, now 92, one of the last surviving witnesses, who lived because he was not at school that day, unlike thirty children in his class.
Faced with the desecration of memory, survivors - like Robert Hébras - decide to break their silence, to speak out and tell their stories before they, too, pass away. Robert Hébras entrusts his granddaughter, Agathe, with the mission of keeping the memory of Oradour alive. But what of the other side of the Rhine, in Germany, within the families of the perpetrators? In 2017, Oradour became a defining part of Karin Elddeloth’s life when she discovered that her grandfather had taken part in the massacre. What, then, is to be done with such a legacy? What else is there to do but confront it?
Revealing how a wound cuts across generations and borders is the very ambition of this documentary.
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