Annette, ein Heldinnenepos

What a life! Born in 1923 in Brittany, raised in modest circumstances, a member of the communist Resistance as a teenager, savior of two Jewish youths – for which she would later receive the honorary title "Righteous Among the Nations" from Yad Vashem – after the war a neurophysiologist in Marseille, sentenced to ten years in prison in 1959 for her involvement with the Algerian independence movement... and even today she serves as a vivid example in schools of the importance of disobedience. Anne Weber tells the improbable life of Anne Beaumanoir in a brilliant biographical epic of a heroine. The scenes described with great linguistic power raise many questions: What drives someone to resist? What is sacrificed for it? How far can one go? What can be achieved? Annette, a heroine's epic, tells the story of a true heroine who matters to us.