Sisters in Resistance (2001)
June 15, 2001Release Date
Sisters in Resistance (2001)
June 15, 2001Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Geneviève de Gaulle Anthonioz
Self
Kate Mulgrew
Narrator
Jacqueline Pery d'Alincourt
Self
Germaine Tillion
Self
Anise Postel-Vinay
Self
Maia Wechsler
Director
Catherine Scheinman
Producer
Peter Chappell
Cinematographer
Details.
Wiki.
Sisters in Resistance, Soeurs en Resistance, is a television documentary directed by Maia Wechsler initially released in France October 25, 2002, and later premiered on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States April 29, 2003. Four young Frenchwomen who fought against the German occupation of France during World War II, tell their stories of adventure, arrest and deportation to Ravensbrück, a women's concentration camp. The film was narrated by Kate Mulgrew, and starred Geneviève de Gaulle Anthonioz (1920-2002), Jacqueline Péry d'Alincourt (1919-2009), Germaine Tillion (1907-2008) and Anise Postel-Vinay (1922-2020) as themselves. They won Outstanding Documentary by the Academy Award Screening Committee and Best Documentary in the Woman in Cinema Film Festival.