Colette: The French resistance fighter confronting fascism - Oscars 2021 Short Documentary Winner
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2020
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90-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine confronts her past by visiting the German concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora where her brother was killed. As a young girl, she fought Hitler's Nazis as a member of the French Resistance. For 74 years, she has refused to step foot in Germany, but that changes when a young history student named Lucie enters her life. Prepared to re-open old wounds and revisit the terrors of that time, Marin-Catherine offers important lessons for us all.
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The interaction between Colette and the young student deepened the impact of the story being told. Just beautiful. For those who didn't live through it, NEVER FORGET.
I had the honor of meeting Colette on an educational trip to Normandy with the National WWII Museum in 2016. I heard her story first hand and there are no words to describe that experience. I’m so grateful to this documentary for capturing her beautiful yet heartbreaking story and sharing it with the world.
Side note: Colette, when you heard me play piano you told me to never stop playing. I still play :)
amazing thank you for sharing this, very touching
Congratulations on winning the Oscar. And I was glad to find this on RUclips instead of a streaming service, thanks for making it available....
didn’t know about this!
I cried during this. I cried more than I have in quite some months.
Colette's wail when she says she didn't think to bring anything hurts the most. I can't imagine how deeply painful this is for her.
I cried as well. Very moving. If you want to cry more, I recommend watching the Animated Short that's nominated for an Oscar "If Anything Happens, I Love You". I couldn't contain myself.
As a history teacher I will make sure to show my students this testimony of courage and dedication. Sadly, the fight for freedom and dignity in the face of cruelty and abuse is not yet won.
I'm affected by the same feelings than you. I'm french history teacher too and I shared this vidéo on my students YT channel because I would they see this short movie, so deeply and touching, between tenderness, bravery, smile and tears. I hope they really" feel" and "touch" our history and Colette's memories.
Don't think anyone watched this with dry eyes at the end. Colette giving Lucie her brother's ring at the end was so touching and emotional for me.
How is this so hard to find! This should be everywhere! Share, share, share
Seeing her struggle during the mayors' speech really hit a nerve for me. It reminds me of my grandma, whenever she starts talking of the war it puts her in a strange state, which is just as hectic, impulsive and full of pain. I had to cry myself towards the end, didn't think I would... Shows us how long reaching and lasting this pain truly was for so many....
I also dont think it helped that the speech was in german... After what she went through and had to shoulder throughout all of her life hearing the language of the people that hurt you and everyone you love so much cant be easy. especially as it seems that she used to avoid germany and things that are german before this trip.
@@zokora3656 yeah, my grandma struggled for the longest time to hear German. With time it got okay, her daughter, my mother, moved to Germany for a year of her studies so worked it through during that time.... But it was not easy....
This documentary is exactly what we need now - when hate is prevalent, xenophobia is advertised, nations become divisive, politicians promote false info for their own agenda...Thank you for producing such a great documentary and it's a stark reminder that peace should not be taken for granted.
Very moving as my eyes filled with tears. She does not give herself enough credit for being brave herself. She found Jean Pierre's spirit in the song of the birds. A difficult journey but a new friendship bond was born.
"Who knows if birds are not a collection of all our sorrows" ... as a 37 year old german guy this video made me cry ... thank you for making it. Regards to Colette.
@@echomarin8893 thank you my friend. Yeah im not that old and i have no connection to the ww2 regime and i dont feel this way because i am german ... i feel this way as a human being. Thank you for your kind words and for me our friendship is real. You are welcome here too
@@echomarin8893 i totally understood what you said my friend.
C'est un témoignage d'une force inouÏe qui mérite bien l'Oscar du court métrage. Colette, son frère, sa famille et la petite historienne forcent notre admiration. Un modèle pour les générations à venir.
Oui et je pense que la force de ce témoignage réside peut-être dans sa simplicité...
'La petite historienne' 😅 oui
J'espère que les generations à venir apprendrons à pardonner aux allemands car je la trouve très mal-élevée avec le maire, il ne faut pas continuer à entretenir du rejet ou de la haine entre Français et Allemand, c'est contre productif. Les generations d'aujourd'hui ne sont pas coupables de ce qui c'est passé en 1939-45.
In my journey to watch as many Oscar nominated films as possible, I am in the documentary section and came to Colette. This was incredibly made. Hearing her say "i took a long time to forget" was heartbreaking. I mean, it's all heartbreaking but that really stood out. What an incredible journey for both the young girl and Colette. Thank you for this piece.
One of the most powerful documentary shorts I’ve seen. If it wins the oscar, we’ll deserved
It have
It won the Oscar
First Oscar win for Respawn Entertainment.
"Who knows if birds are not the collection of all our sorrows?" Colette Marin-Catherine
😥
I wrote down this quote as well. Such beautiful words!
They wouldn't sing then, would they? you cricket!😂🤣
Such a beautiful quote. I wont forget it anytime soon.
Hits you right then and there, when she realizes, she didn't bring flowers...how powerful and deeply moving.
Thank you for this extraordinary short film.
Well deserved - the Academy Award nomination. Wishing you all the best with this.
Regards from Germany.
*EDIT* Returning after this actually - and deservedly so - won the Academy Award for best Documentary Short. Again: Well deserved.
Even just reading this comment makes my eyes go all wet again...
@@RedHeadForester Now think how the West destroyed Africa, Asia and the Americas for their selfish gains. These holocausts are still occurring across the globe.
@@cosmicwakes6443 ‘destroyed’ is a bit eccentric.
@@cosmicwakes6443 classic comment out-of-context. are we talking about colonialism here? no.
@@ale_emmepunto Colonialism is the greatest human sin.
Merci, humanité et courage. Cette dame parle comme un livre qu'on écoute et qui arrive par le partage à nous faire pleurer.
Un Oscar bien mérité !! Une histoire tragique, émouvante, mais encore une fois un document essentiel pour NE PAS OUBLIER !
Never forget !!
Extrêmement émouvant, merci Colette d’avoir fait cet effort sur vous-même et d’avoir transmis à cette jeune fille.
I admire her no nonsense intolerance for sentimentality and B.S. A great life lesson from someone who had 94 years to learn what is worth honoring in life, and what isn't.
Exactly unlike many others from that time......I cannot stand the way they sensationalise D Day like its a frigin Hollywood movie. Its just cringe. Trying to recreate the past playing dress-up. FFS!
Very emotional documentary. Seeing a young French girl and a French Elder going to Germany.
Thanks to The Guardian for help keeping the flame🔥 alive. We all need to make a pause and try to see beyond the immediate events to get back the memory of what's essential 🗽Hugs from 🇫🇷 !
les fleurs oubliées, la bague transmise à cette superbe Lucie comme un maillon de cette histoire qui ne finie jamais. Merci pour ce magnifique documentaire sur ce frère perdu et cette blessure toujours béante dans votre coeur, dans le nôtre aussi. Je suis envahi de larmes, impossible de les contenir et puis, après tout, pourquoi les retenir. Je pleure aussi pour vous Colette. Toutes mes amitiés vous portent . Lucie, je compte sur vous, vous avez les clefs de l'Histoire entre vos mains, puissent-elles vous donner la force d'expliquer à nos enfants cette horreur que fut la guerre.
My uncle, Bertin Edwards (he was half French, half English) was a POW who escaped prison and joined a resistance network in Grenoble, France. He was caught by the Gestapo and sent to Dora-Mittlebau, never to return. His brother, my late father, finally visited the camp in his 80's to visit this place he dreaded all his life. My uncle's name is written on the register today, among thousands. He died in August of 1944, he was just 21 years old. Maybe him and Jean-Pierre crossed paths. Thanks to The Guardian for producing this documentary.
Vive La France.
Oh dear! He was a hero ! You know, a lot of people made little things for resistance but only the great hero fell for France.
@@echomarin8893 thank you
I’m glad the young girl didn’t try to say anything to make Colette “feel better” when she was crying, she needed to process grief as hard as it was for her, it seems like all those years she’s been avoiding it and trying to make herself forget which wasn’t working at all for her in fact it probably made the pain 10000x worse.
congrats on the nomination! such a beautiful short film.
Merci, merci à Anthony Giacchino , Alice Doyardest, Lucie et Colette pour ce document extrêmement émouvant. Tellement emprunt de dignité, de pudeur malgré ce délicat thème historique. Lucie : vous avez les clefs de la transmission. Que de larmes me sont venues lors de la scène de la bague ! Inoubliable documentaire.....
That mayor really could have just said something like, ‘You honor us with your visit. Welcome,’ and left it at that
Que la nouvelle génération en prenne de la graine. NE JAMAIS OUBLIER.
Colette, merci pour ce témoignage et ce courage de retourner dans ce camp. Vous êtes une héroïne, on vous découvre et on vous écoute les larmes aux yeux. Un énorme merci Madame Colette. Un Oscar amplement mérité pour ce court métrage. Bravo.
My feelings exactly. Non je n'oublierai jamais à quel point nous les avons trahis. Magnifique documentaire, une part de nous et je ne dis pas çà seulement pour mon grand-père ou même ma perspective de Gueule cassée.
Quel documentaire différent d'autres documentaires sur le sujet
Quelle femme Colette quel courage une dame humble soucieuse de garder sa dignité malgré toutes les horreurs vues... Généreuse... Digne
Et cette étudiante humaine gentille à l'écoute
Un échange de générations traduit par cette bague donnée
Merci merci merci
20:49 Colette ends up comforting her. Colette's soul just shines through here
What a beautiful documentary. I wish we had actually learnt lessons from the past - decades later, there are still Uyghurs being tortured and innocent civilians having their lives torn apart from wars.
Beautiful but also heartbreaking. I could not stop crying when Colette gave her ring to Marine.
The final song was actually a French revolutionary song during the WWII : "le chant des partisans"
here's the lyrics we hear :
Ami, entends-tu le vol noir des corbeaux sur nos plaines?
Ami, entends-tu les cris sourds du pays qu'on enchaine?
Ohé partisans, ouvriers et paysans, c'est l'alarme.
Ce soir l'ennemi connaitra le prix du sang et les larmes
...
Mate, do you hear the dark flight of the crows over our plains?
Mate, do you hear the dull screaming of the chained country?
Ohe, partisans, workers and peasants, it's the alarm ring.
Tonight, the enemy will know the price of blood and tears
...
(sorry for the bad translation)
Excellent. Thank you.
Desde Colombia entendemos el horror de la guerra, lo humano de esta mujer y la resistencia por la memoria de su hermano y familia. Que el arte ayude a que no se pierda la memoria frente a la guerra atroz, pero también se tenga viva la esperanza de seguir resistiendo. Muy bello trabajo audiovisual.
Beautiful story.
I can understand what Colette meant by "morbid tourism". When I visited "Auschwitz-Birkenau", it was an awfully sad experience. I could not understand why some people were taking photos of each other posing on the train tracks and around the camp. How desensitized and attention-seeking you need to be to consider it a photo souvenir. But that's something to be excepted in our current culture of selfie hyper-narcissism and social media-based, clinical attention-seeking.
Morbid tourism means, I think, that you go to the place where some very bad thing had done, as concentration camps, only to make a photo of yourself to say I was there.
I think, if we go to these places we should learn ourselves, or remember, nothing else.
@@osamelyvlk8962 I agree
I certainly took photos at Auschwitz-Birkenau but not of myself and nothing like those photos you mention which I also saw a lot of. Extremely disrespectful.
You're right, alas. Thanksfully, when my mother and I paid our visit at Auschwitz-Birkenau, all people of our group and people all around were truly respectful. One can only whisper in such a place. It's a journey everybody must do once in a lifetime, I really think so, but only for the tribute and the memory, nothing else. A part of my mother and I staid at Birkenau, it's beyond words...
Visiting Auschwitz is on my bucket list. I cannot imagine people taking selfie pictures there...what in the world.....!
Un grand bravo à vous Lucie pour ce prix et cet excellent documentaire plein de force et de sens.
Votre ancien professeur de philosophie de Terminale.
quel touchant témoignage ! Bravo d'avoir participé à l'éducation d'une si formidable jeune fille.
The major's speech made me feel a bit upset too, Collete wasnt ready to forgive not ready to forget the past.
Could also be a combination of that and maybe his German triggered a flashback.
Impressive - heartbreaking - cruel - never again.
I felt tears coming up, born in 1972, yet feeling responsible - not directly for those times, but for today...
Burkhard from Germany
Entre rires et larmes, ce documentaire m'a ému. Colette délivre un message universel de résistance et de mémoire qui servira aux générations futures. Merci à elle et à Lucie. Un boujou de Normandie !
Lucie, après avoir réalisé un tel documentaire (si argumenté, expliqué et émouvant) vous avez une belle carrière d'historienne qui s'ouvre devant vous. Merci à vous et à Colette de nous permettre de ne pas oublier.
Mettre Le chant de la libération en musique de fin wow ça m'a achevé. Magnifique.
Putting Le chant de la libération as the credits music was the end of me. Beautiful.
C'est le Chant des partisans. Splendidement terrible.
It's the Chant des Partisans (song of the partisans). Splendidly terrible.
Can’t believe her mother would rather she was arrested than her brother, awful thing to say to a little girl
Cried several times. Incredible people and a story well told. Bravo on the Oscar.
Pas prêt d'oublier ce reportage simple et émouvant...filmé à hauteur du cœur ❤
Great thank you for Lucie the young historian girl and for the Guardian's team. Very touching, who can not cry 😭 watching this?!
Une traversée d emotions , magnifique partage de deux êtres, ce cadeau la bague de jean pierre transmise à une génération présente pour ne pas oublier , merci et bravo pour ce document
very emotional, powerful, dignified.
Pain travels from past to present via memories and then you face the past and whole things start ... .... Those people and the war.. so touching documentary.
Il n'y a pas de mot pour tant d'émotions partagées. Bravo et merci pour le témoignage qui ne me laisse pas insensible
A beautiful short film. The images and the story reach the heart strings.
J'aurais pu écouter et regarder cette dame parler des heures simplement magnifique. Merci pour cette transmission d'histoire.🙏🏻
What an amazingly moving story. I hope this film makes it way into every high school classroom on the planet.
If I may say also that Colette is right about knowledge and study of these events doesn't enrich anyone's lives. But much of history, perhaps too much of it is meant to serve as a warning instead.
You got classroom thing right yo
Merci à vous pour ce magnifique et émouvant reportage Merci à vous deux pour tout
Thank you for posting this for free viewing of an amazing short film. Although Colette is surely justified in trying to forget the horror of the camps...it is something the world must never forget and something to be feared of ever happening again.
An important film fir young people to see.
9:05 "He was made of steel. If he decided to go through a wall, forget about the wall." lol, love it
J’ai une profonde sympathie pour tous les gens tels que Colette qui a su rester debout , digne ...la dignité ...une vertu admirable .
Longue vie encore à Colette .
I was very moved by this story. I cried my eyes out during the ring scene. Huge emotional impact on various levels:
- Unity between the lady and the girl, their lives were connected by one tragedy
- Unfinished story of Jean-Pierre (unfinished ring) which
- translates to actually continuing the story and potentially closing it thanks to young Lucie
Marvellous
Quel témoignage, incroyable, merci à vous : PLUS JAMAIS çà. Ces deux générations forcent l'admiration.
Rightfully a winner, very powerful, exposing such raw emotion must've been extremely brave of her. I'm in bits.
Seriously. Think about it before you give it a thumbs down. It is not here to entertain you. It is a gift, giving you a glimpse into the most secret inner thoughts of a sister that ordinarily, you should never have seen from Colette, a very brave and strong women.
You do realise that this "young lady" had the trip planned, that every shot, every action, every picture of dead people she showed, every mention of the dead brother, every word she said was part of a pre planned scrip to make an old lady relived an horrible experience, make her cry, filmed it and sell it. That no one is pointing the obvious, this is called grifting off other people pain and it so wrong.... But hey, it made you cry so its ok I guess 👌
@@TommyMartinezpt The young student always asks her if she wanted to go there but she never force her to follow her. The old lady wanted to go to this place like a kind of mourning it is normal to see her crying
I think Lucie Fouble (the french student) also deserve a lot of credit for tis piece, i just loved how sympathetic she is...
Que produção incrível! Parabéns! Super necessário, haja vista que não podemos esquecer o que aconteceu.
Ohh gosh, I felt her pain. Why am I crying 😭
I love you, Colette. I felt like I was right there crying with them. If I ever get to go there, I will take flowers for your brother if I'm allowed to.
Very moving -- two strong and beautiful people here, facing the worst and supporting each other through it. The film strongly deserves the Oscar it won.
Congrats on the well deserved Oscar win! And that speech was mega dank!!!
So much pain. I live in hope that one day our species will evolve to live up to its promise and cease the purposeful infliction of harm. It must stop.
I am sorry, the subtitles are too small for me to read. Yet I could still read the emotions in the faces.
Peace
Thanks for making this available to watch for free on RUclips
An extraordinary film! Touches deep inside our hearts.
Absolut wunderbare, packende Dokumentation. Gratulation zum Oscar!
May I volunteer to provide Chinese subtitle to this great documentary?
that is so kind of you to offer !!
One of the most touching videos I’ve seen in a long time. What a remarkable woman and a beautiful film.
Thank you this was certainly an eye opener and tear jerker 🙏
A reação da menina é algo tão lindo
12:28 Can't blame her for being upset right here.
Pour son courage, sa dignité, sa pudeur, Merci Colette. Merci aussi à la jeune fille qui l'accompagne. Grâce à sa démarche biographique , ces milliers de personnes lâchement assassinées sortiront de l'anonymat. Un travail de Mémoire à saluer, un court-métrage plus qu'émouvant!
What a beautiful pair of human beings. I am generally strictly materialistic in my world view but there was something magical about their connection.
Tears will not be enough but I cried with you, for you and for others...
This documentary just won an academy award. Well done!
ça vous prend partout quand elle dit qu'elle n'a pas porté de fleurs....Hits you right then and there, when she realizes, she didn't bring any flowers.... у нас сердце щемит когда она говорит что она не принесла цветы.....
Thank you Guardian for allowing so many people to watch that.
Merci
Quel beau documentaire émouvant, plein d'humanité. Merci à Colette et à cette jeune fille de nous transmettre ce témoignage.
I think everyone fortunate to go should go see these camps. To wander through knowing lives ended where you're standing and to look back on the atrocities they faced, it must be so harrowing. But it's also something I think more people need to feel. It's uncomfortable, and I had to pause several times, but I want that feeling engraved into my being so that I will never become complicit in the face of injustice.
amen mon frère👏🏻
Increadible important documentary. Thank you for making it available on RUclips. Colette and the young student are extraordinary people.
This film won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. Colette is the first film produced by a video-game studio to win or be nominated for an Academy Award.
im watching this on the 22nd, i got chills. amazing doc
Quelle histoire ! Bravo pour le courage de Colette, quelle force ! J'ai sincèrement jamais ressenti autant d'émotions devant un écran.
Madame, vous êtes la mémoire, le courage et la force dont notre pays manque cruellement actuellement, vous nous avez fait pleurer, c'est grace à vous que nous, génération qui n'a pas connu ces horreurs, pouvons transmettre , à notre tour, cette mémoire et cette histoire des camps et de cette horrible guerre. Merci Madame.
My late French father in law spent most of the Second World War in Britain in the Royal Air Force. He survived and went back to France. He was a passionate supported of what became the EU. Prior to Britain joining he used to say to me “If we French can make up with the Germans, Christopher, surely you British can do likewise” Tragically, although we eventually joined, we British never seemed to see it that way and history will record we turned our backs on Europe in 2020 ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️.
didn't want the Panzers down the champs elysees again, my Grandfather WW2 Vet) always said
Very interesting to hear your father in law's perspective. its so important to listen to these wise voices of experience rather than the shrill demagogues that abound now like Farage, T***p
Brexit was about leaving the dictatorial EU Govt! Many across Europe feel the same way.
The EU is a Govt NOT a country.
@@citizen1163 but we weren’t given a range of options in the referendum. I don’t want a federal Europe but neither do I want the shambles we’ve got now. And I don’t want to be subject to a Farage world where ordinary people are at the mercy of right wingers who want to roll back the rights of working people for their own profits. That’s his motive for Brexit.
@@JohnJames-kw5de EU Ref wasn't about a range of options. It was Remain or Leave.
The EU Govt was never on the cards when we joined (under false pretences) in the 70s. The EU was imposed upon half a billion Europeans with no vote!
What a con!!
Countries paying for 2 Govts! Their own PLUS the EU Govt!
Imagine the many layers of costly bureaucracy doing what?! Making more laws to stifle business in favour of Globalists.
Thank you so much for standing with Hong Kong Protesters, Mr. Anthony Giacchino
Wow, that was powerful.
Merci. Grâce à ce film émouvant, nous fûmes, pour un temps, le frère, la soeur de ce jeune homme, mort pour notre liberté il y a 76 ans.
What a beautiful bond between Colette and Lucie! This documentary broke my heart just to piece it back together at the end.
And what a bold move to interrupt the mayor with his unnecessary scripted and rehearsed speech.
I think the speech was unnecessary because she can't understand German, to her it probably sounded like the language her brother died from. I speak German and I'm sure he meant it nice but it was a little weird
They should have ofer her a Croissant 🥐 or a miniature statue of the Eifel Tower, something that's a little bit more French :) That's what I would have done :)
@@RequiemDream it definitely was a little weird when he was asked to stop and he said- “I’m almost done!”. It was a prepared rehearsed speech. She definitely didn’t need it.
@@mariyadell5709 I agree 100% And yeah I was confused about that part as well... I think since he didn't understand her, he may have thinked that she's so happy to be there and visit this place but in fact it was the opposite and very hard for her, I don't know
Tellement émouvant 🖤 Impossible de ne pas être bouleversé par cette histoire
Respawn mérite amplement cette récompense! Bravo à l'équipe pour transmettre ces émotions avec un point de vue quand même différent!
Thanks for sharing this. ❤
Que curioso cuando le pregunta, no entiendo cómo este horror puede ayudarte con tu informe, a lo que ella le responde: así el pasado será recordado. A lo que Colette le responde: me tomó mucho tiempo poder olvidar.
Very touching.