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The Half-Open Door
Fiction / 12 min / Digital Beta & 35 mm / Color / format 1,85 Sound Dolby SR/ 2000

With: Jasmina Douieb - Bernard Marbaix - Natan Kemp - David Lopes Cardozo
- Laurent Capelluto
SCREENPLAY & DIRECTION: Marc Goldstein
CINEMATOGRAPHER: David Van Berg
SOUND: Quentin Jacques
EDITING: Ewin Ryckaert
MIX: Stephane Werner
SCENERY: Marc Goldstein
MUSIC: Jean-Pierre Taïeb
PRODUCER: Marc Goldstein

Synopsis

This fiction is in part based on a true story

1943. For Hannah, a young Jewish girl on board a deportation train to Auschwitz with her father Mire and her uncle Datner, it is hell on earth.

Victim of the brutality of a Nazi, Mire is wounded and loses consciousness. Hannah refuses to abandon her father, but Datner pushes her against her will, through a half-open door, which is blocked and cannot be closed.

All her life, Hannah regrets having abandoned her father. Until the day when, 50 years later, a stranger approaches her and tells her that he was in the train and that her father woke up for a moment before dying. Long enough to say "if one of you pulls through, tell my daughter I bless her for having escaped."

Then, Hannah, blocked in the past for 50 years, falls into the stranger's arms and finally takes on the body of a woman her age.

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