Refuge

Janni Jungblut, DE/FR 2026, 75 min, French OmeU

In Dieulefit, a town halfway between Lyon and Marseille, over 1,000 refugees found refuge during the Second World War. Contemporary witnesses recall those days and three women who played formative roles in the resistance against the German occupation. Two, who lived openly as a couple, had founded a reform school on the outskirts of the village, which also supported the Resistance in the surrounding mountains. The third was a secretary at the town hall, where she issued forged ID cards for the persecuted. Using archive footage and scenes of current pupils from Dieulefit, the director, a teacher by profession, links the past with the present. The educational claim of this film by a Hamburg non-profit association is obvious: resistance knowledge must be passed on to future generations.

Guest: Janni Jungblut