Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war effort in Germany. After spending six months in a indoctrination camp, they are both sent to a munitions factory where they are tasked to perform inhuman works. An explosion erupts, they are suspected of sabotage and threatened with being sent to a boot camp. Alice and Lisette believe they saved when transferred to a maternity where they continue living the hell of war.
Acting
Bonaventura and Herrero's wordless communication destroys you.
Production
Claustrophobic camp and factory spaces that breathe oppression.
Direction
Malleval refuses to aestheticize suffering — it's uglier, more honest.
Director
Denis Malleval
Flore Bonaventura
Alice Fabre / Alicia Faberlicht
Louise Herrero
Lisette Weiss
Pierre Kiwitt
Hugo Steiner
Matthias Dietrich
Dassler
Manuela Biedermann
Inge Sprenger
Oliver Walser
Fritzmann
Macha Méril
Alice Fabre (old)
Julia Thurnau
Trudl
Hildegard Schroedter
Wilma
Anne Somot
Olga
Maud galet-lalande
Karla
Marie Schoenbock
Ingrid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lebensborn ('fount of life') was Himmler's real breeding program; thousands of Alsatian women were forcibly relocated, a history France long suppressed.
The mockumentary framing device — interviews with elderly 'Alice' — was improvised after Bonaventura found actual survivor testimonies, blurring fiction and recovered memory.
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