Shared Cultural Season: Before Our Eyes

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During World War II, some Norman civilians filmed their daily life with the rare cameras that existed at the time. Never before had their surviving footage been shown to the public. This film tells, from Mobilization to Liberation, the test of war 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 symbol region and martyr of freedom. They did it at the risk of their lives because…