LA RAFLE (THE ROUND UP) 
Country: France/Germany/Hungary 2010 Drama With a meticulously constructed script based on first-hand accounts and years of extensive research by writer/director Roselyne Bosch and holocaust expert Serge Klarsfeld, this epic drama brings to the screen the harrowing true story of the infamous “Vel’ d’Hiv’” round up of July 16, 1942, during which French police, on orders from France’s Vichy government, conducted a mass arrest of some 13,000 Parisian Jews, detaining them for five days under hellish conditions in the Winter Velodrome stadium – en-route to French-run transit camps, and from there, on a journey of no return to the extermination camps in the east. All of the characters depicted in the film are based on real people, including ten-year-old Joseph Weisman, one of the more than 4,000 children taken during the raids, and the compassionate Annette Leiris Monod (played by Melanie Laurent), a Protestant nurse, later officially recognized as “righteous among the nations”, who devotes herself entirely to help ease the suffering of the doomed detainees and risks her life to stay with the children. With “impeccable production values and all-around stirring performances” (Variety), this wrenching drama follows the destinies of the victims, perpetrators and would-be saviours, as it confronts the Vichy government’s complicity in the events that unfolded in that summer of 1942 - a dark chapter in modern French history that has only been officially acknowledged in recent years. Date & Time: Saturday, November 26th at 7:00 PM
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