Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The crusade of Antoinette Brown Isabelle Nataf

It could have been a great story: that of a woman who takes all the risks to hide Jewish children during World War II. But not this version is where history will Antoinette Brown. For if this fifties actually saved kids from deportation, his religious fanaticism has driven in excess that triggered a scandal in France of the post-war.

With the complicity of the Church

Antoinette Brown, to keep it from Robert and Gerald Finally, while their parents died in concentration camps and their aunt living in Israel, claims, is baptized. And as it is not enough, with the complicity of the Church, which considers that now the two small Christian owned, Antoinette Brown hides, first in France, then moved to Spain.

In reading an article on the Vatican archives which told how Pope Pius XII had given instructions not to Jewish children baptized, that producer Elizabeth Boston and screenwriter Philippe Bernard had an idea of what TV Directed by Fabrice Genestal.

"We focused on two aspects: Antoinette Brown and the role of the Church in this case, the writer explains. It was left for doubt about the fact that it acted out of financial interest. The idea I have of it is that of a mad woman, who never had children and after the war, was given the role of a heroine. It was sincerely convinced by its mission. "In interpreting the role of Antoinette Brown -" it was certainly not make a witch "- the choice was made on Charlotte de Turckheim. A new role for actress accustomed comedies, in which it is unrecognizable and formidable.

The second angle, the responsibility of the Church, not evaded, something rare on television. A TV necessary and quality.

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