Filippa Bauer

Documentary film.

The memory of the Résistance in the maquis of southern France. There: ‘Les Feuillets d’Hypnos’, a lyrical war diary by René Char, fragments, searching for the language in the landscape. An attempt at a translation.

As children, they spent their summer vacations playing on building sites in what was then Yugoslavia; today, the dreams their parents realized there are now in their hands. The houses bear witness to the planned but repeatedly postponed return from Germany - as a made family and with the whole family. Left in the shell, carefully furnished or now threatened by decay, they are mostly uninhabited. The film is dedicated to these rooms in quiet shots; the five protagonists relate to them.