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Show: From Eckmühl to Eckmühl
Show · Friday, November 6 · 18:00 · Laruns
Médiathèque de Laruns, 11 rue du Général de Gaulle
Eckmühl is a Breton lighthouse; Eckmühl is a neighborhood in Oran, Algeria. Two places, one family. Mine. A story, that of my grandmother stepping out of her gypsy caravan to take a boat, leaving Brittany, her arrival in Algeria. The birth of my father. The confession of a grandmother to her 50-year-old grandson, the secret revealed, a world of certainty that collapses. The urgency to travel, to clear away the sand, to recall, to retrace the path. To find that young girl again in this France overseas, her meeting with my grandfather, the father of my father… Unless…
