Colette (2020 film)

Colette is a 2020 French-language American documentary film directed by Anthony Giacchino and produced by Alice Doyard, Annie Small and Aaron Matthews.

[1] Together with aspiring historian Lucie Fouble, 90-year-old French Resistance fighter Colette Marin-Catherine travels to Nordhausen to visit Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.

The film was directed by Anthony Giacchino and produced by Alice Doyard, Aaron Matthews, and Annie Small.

The idea came to the team when they were filming a documentary about a U.S. World War II veteran who made an emergency landing in Normandy during Operation Overlord.

At first, they seemed unable to persuade Marin-Catherine to visit Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp because of her strong aversion to the place, or to Germany in general, and because she had spent 70 years trying to forget the past.

[3] The filmmakers paid attention to reverence and gave Marin-Catherine the opportunity to determine when the camera should stop filming.