Word: verdier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a very personal voice. It deals primarily with ordinary Frenchmen and Germans who have reduced the Holocaust to forms of individual and family history. Helmuth Tausend, a German officer stationed in Clermont-Ferrand, first speaks of the war as a six-year separation from his new bride. Marcel Verdier, a pharmacist, refers to the obsession with food he and his countrymen developed. Pierre Mendes-France, who was Secretary of State before the collapse, recalls both matters of government and of the desire for small needs like kitchen matches. Those who struggled against the Nazis give personal, seemingly insignificant reasons...
...themes of the people to come through. Recognizing the special difficulties of filming interviews. Ophuls keeps his camera moving, frequently setting the interview in motion: several take place in moving cars, others out in the French countryside. The setting reflects the speaker. The Graves brothers walk about their farm: Verdier is surrounded by his family: Anthony Edea sits in the chateau where he and Churchill learned of France's impending surrender...
...congested part of Paris 1,000 apartments and offices for 7,000 workers in a 62-story tower. The damage that the Montparnasse tower has done to Paris' proud profile has caused the largest outcry of all the rebuilding in the city-and helped move Paris Prefect Jean Verdier last week to announce new rules to reduce the permissible height of new buildings in the heart of Paris to 80 feet...