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Escaped
60 minutes, colour/bw, video
 
scenario & drection JETSKE SPANJER &
ANGE WIEBERDINK
camera PETER BRUGMAN
sound GERT JAN MIEDEMA
editor JESSICA DE KONING
research GERARD NIJSSEN
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In 1945,
at the end of the Second World War, the Dutch Lon Verstijnen
and the French Christine Bénedite were imprisoned in
the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. The Allied Forces
were advancing and the Nazis decided to clear the camps. They
put the prisoners on forced marches, the so called death marches.
Lon and Christine, together with seven other women managed to
escape. As a group of nine, in six days they crossed hostile
Germany and all of them reached the American troops. Three out
of nine wrote about the adventures. Their diaries have been
used in this film. Lon and Christine are now over 90. Still
they never forgot that journey. They have never seen each other
since.
documentary, 2009
coproduction Ange Wieberdink Producties |
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