Project Detail

If The Walls Could Speak

Synopsis

La Muette housing estate in Drancy, outskirt of Paris: today houses people on low incomes, yesterday interned a total of 67,000 Jews on their way to death camps. If The Walls Could Speak is a documentary which traces the history of this building and brings the past into the present in a dynamic, contemporary way.

Details

Year
1999
Running time
52 mins
Format
Mini DV
Director
Daniela Zanzotto
Producer
Daniela Zanzotto
Director of Photography
Daniela Zanzotto
Director of Photography
Daniela Zanzotto

Production Status

Production Company

Disruptive Element Films 23 Beech Hill Road, Sheffield S10 2SA Tel: 0114 263 1300 Fax: 0114 266 1397 Email: disruptive@zoo.co.uk

Sales Company

Jane Balfour Films Burghley House, 35 Fortess Road, London NW5 1AD Tel: 020 7267 5392 Fax: 020 7267 4241 Email: jbf@janebalfourfilms.co.uk

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