A collection of home movies, diaries and letters from the last summer before the start of the Second World War reveals how far the impending conflict was away from the minds of ordinary French people.
Gustave Folcher, a French farmer, wrote in his 1939 diary that the summer had been long and hot. He was not alone. Many other anonymous French men and women wrote of the beauty and warmth of those summer months and how threats of war were far from their minds. Through home movies, diaries and letters, One Last Summer describes the final weeks of peace in France and the mix of blindness, denial and prophetic clear-sightedness of those facing the war that was about to unfold.
Ruth Zylberman
Director
Emmanuel Carrère
Emmanuel Danziger
Jean Echenoz
Joanna Grudzinska
Cyril Levy
Valérie Loiseleux
Jean Mouchard
François Prodromidès
Elsa Revcolevschi
The Unknown Known68%
Padomju stāsts73%
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound68%
We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company73%
Night Will Fall76%
Shoah82%
The Battle of San Pietro61%
The Untold History Of The United States81%
McCullin76%
Why We Fight: Prelude to War65%
Visions of Light70%
Love, Gilda72%
One Day in September72%
9/11: Inside the President's War Room68%
Red Army73%
WWII From Space74%
Colette72%
Daguerréotypes73%
The War on Democracy75%
Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)71%
