Life in front of me: a drama surrounding the Vel d'Hiv roundup [bande-annonce]

This film by Nils Tavernier is inspired by the true story of Tauba Birenbaum, a teenager under occupied France.

The two actors of the Comédie-Française Guillaume Gallienne And Adeline d'Hermy are brought together in a drama by Nils Tavernier, The life before me. The son of director and producer Bertrand Tavernier tackles the heavy story of the largest arrest of Jews in France, the Vel d’Hiv roundup.

Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of Tauba Birenbauma young teenager played by Violette Guillon, who escapes the roundup of July 16, 1942 with her mother (Adeline d'Hermy) and her father (Guillaume Gallienne). They find refuge with the Dinanceaus, whose wife is played by the talented Sandrine Bonnaire. Having to be only temporary, their silence drags on between the walls of a small maid's room under the Parisian roofs, where the fear of being discovered weighs on both families.

The trailer opens with a video archive of this fighting woman, whose testimony is one of the 50,000 collected by Steven Spielberg and his Shoah Foundation. The story of Tauba Birenbaum can be discovered in theaters from February 26. If you're too impatient, you can get the novel of the same title, written by Guy Birenbaum, Tauba's son, on January 29.