The extraordinary destiny of a resistance fighter
Simone de, Morvan, Evrard, Walter.
The point of view of the editor, Glénat
In 1972, television showed the portrait of an old man, wanted since the end of the war: Klaus Barbie. Seeing him, Simone Lagrange, 42, is first taken aback, before seeing a painful past resurface. This man, she recognizes him. This old man is her torturer, the one who tortured her, in Lyon, from June 6, 1944.
She remembers the young girl she was, when France fell to the Vichy regime, before the free zone was occupied. She remembers her years of resistance, as a liaison officer. Simone was then called Simy Kadosche, she was Jewish and knew that her life and those of her relatives were in danger. The denunciation was common currency but no one could expect that they would be denounced by someone so close. It was there, at the headquarters of the Gestapo, that she crossed paths with the head of section V: The butcher of Lyon, Klaus Barbie.
Historical triptych which looks back on the story of a French resistance fighter, deported to Birkenau from where she will return after a mind-blowing journey, as much as on the course of the historic Barbie trial of which she was one of the key witnesses._ Simone _raconte the journey of a woman endowed with a will of steel but also with resilience. A moving _biopic, which knows how to describe the unspeakable through a subtle visual language – confirming the talent of the authors of Irena – to teach us and move us with an enormous heart.