Shared Cultural Season: Before Our Eyes

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During World War II, a few Norman civilians filmed their daily life with the scarce cameras that existed at the time. Never before had their surviving footage been shown to the general public. This film tells, from Mobilization to Liberation, the war’s ordeal through the evidence these witnesses collected. They filmed shortages, restrictions, and improvisation. And just as much family life, joys, and hope… They did it without knowing that Normandy would become the region symbolizing freedom and martyrdom. They did it at the risk of their lives since…