A LA RECHERCHE DU LIEU DE MA NAISSANCE
Title
A LA RECHERCHE DU LIEU DE MA NAISSANCE
Description
BELGIUM-SWITZERLAND
75', 2copies
Autobiographical fiction, Experimental
Director Boris Lehman returns to Lausanne where he was born at the end of the war on March 3, 1944. He returns there 44 years later. He only lived there for a year.
His parents, because Jews, had fled Poland since the advent of Nazism and had taken refuge in Belgium. They had to flee once more during the German occupation, and cross France illegally to reach neutral Switzerland. Boris Lehman has no memory of that. His parents are dead, the witnesses are gone.
Armed with only a few documents and photographs found at the bottom of a box with memories, he strolls through Lausanne, looking here and there for some traces of his passage, of his history, gathering in a way the proofs of his existence.
But the city is silent and remains foreign to the director.
Encounters are born of stories, which bring the director irresistibly to evoke, from near or far, the theme of his birth, indissolubly linked to the Lake, which bears, to a letter, his name.
His parents, because Jews, had fled Poland since the advent of Nazism and had taken refuge in Belgium. They had to flee once more during the German occupation, and cross France illegally to reach neutral Switzerland. Boris Lehman has no memory of that. His parents are dead, the witnesses are gone.
Armed with only a few documents and photographs found at the bottom of a box with memories, he strolls through Lausanne, looking here and there for some traces of his passage, of his history, gathering in a way the proofs of his existence.
But the city is silent and remains foreign to the director.
Encounters are born of stories, which bring the director irresistibly to evoke, from near or far, the theme of his birth, indissolubly linked to the Lake, which bears, to a letter, his name.
Creator
LEHMAN BORIS
Publisher
Dovfilm, Amidon Paterson Film, C.B.A., La Sept
Date
1990
Format
VHS
Language
FRENCH
Identifier
CHOD0102
Collection
Citation
LEHMAN BORIS, “A LA RECHERCHE DU LIEU DE MA NAISSANCE,” WPB, accessed March 16, 2025, https://tpb.worm.org/items/show/12586.