19th Portland Jewish Film Festival
LA RAFLE (THE ROUND UP)
DIRECTOR: ROSE BOSCH
FRANCE/GERMANY/HUNGARY, 2010
In July 1942, French police conducted a mass arrest of some 13,000 Parisian Jews, including more than 4,000 children. The infamous “Vel’ d’Hiv’” round up (also portrayed in SARAH’S KEY) is told through the story of the Weismann family, whose Montmartre lives are upended when authorities raid their Jewish neighborhood. Detained in a stadium under hellish conditions, a Jewish doctor (Jean Reno), aided by a Protestant nurse (Mélanie Laurent), struggles to minister to the doomed deportees. Carefully reconstructing a long-suppressed chapter of French history and based on years of research by writer/director Rose Bosch and noted Holocaust expert Serge Klarsfeld, THE ROUND UP follows the destinies of the victims, perpetrators, and those who fought in horror to help. (115 mins.)
Sponsored by Oregon Holocaust Resource Center.