SOBIBOR, 14 OCTOBRE 1943, 16 HEURES

Using an interview granted to me by Yehuda Lerner in Jerusalem in 1979 during the filming of Shoah, I have now made Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m, the place, month, day, year and hour of the only successful uprising in a Nazi extermination camp. In today’s landscapes and settings that are immutably those of the past, the non-violent David who dealt the first fatal axe-blow becomes the herald of a mythological film and the master of a suspense that heightens until the final image, when human order and the reign of freedom re-establish their rights.