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Sylvie Lindeperg
Born 1965-04-08 · Oullins, France
Sylvie Lindeperg is a historian, a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on the connections between cinema, memory and history, with a particular inclination toward the Second World War and the International Justice. She draws her inspiration at the junctures of history and art history, in the works of Carlo Ginzburg, Michael Baxandall and Daniel Arasse, thereby contributing to the revival of a field pioneered in France by Marc Ferro, Michele Lagny and Pierre Sorlin.
Acting credits
6.0In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). The story of the making of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, a paramount historic documentary, released in 1948.
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
2023
8.0The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by the German occupation during World War II, because it shattered the myth, cultivated by the followers of President Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), of a united France that had supposedly stood firm in the face of the ruthless invaders.
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
2024
NRFrench film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context of the historical treatment of WWII, and specifically of the Holocaust, in the decade following those harrowing events. Oddly, she argues that the images of Resnais's famous film are "powerless", in her words.
Facing the Phantoms
2009
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Ils ne savaient pas ? Les Français et la Shoah sous l'occupation
2012