White Bird 2024

A war drama about drama about Sara who lives in Nazi-occupied France Paris. During a math class (Pythagoras theorem) the school is round up by Gastapo. Classmate Julien keeps her safe in a barn of the house, where he lives with his parents. He keeps teaching what he learned in school (there is an other geometry scene). There are some parallels to the life story of Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (see review of Lydia Bieri) Like Sara's father had her father deported to a concentration camp: "However, 1944 brought a radical and brutal change to the Bruhat's lives. The shock for the Bruhat family came in the form of the Gestapo a few days before the liberation of Paris. Upon refusing to help find a student who was a member of the Resistance, Georges Bruhat was deported to a concentration camp in Germany. He was transferred to the camp in Sachsenhausen, where he died at the beginning of 1945."


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Oliver Knill, Posted November 17, 2024,