Omaha Beach France, a short film with Jess Hahn

A team led by Pierre Emmanuel Danan toured for three days in Vierville to direct Omaha Beach France, an eleven-minute fiction devoted to the Landing.

The film tells the meeting of the eyes of a child and an old man on the beach of Omaha. Jess Hahn, an American actor specializing in supporting roles and living in France for twenty years, plays a veteran and, symbolically, the soldiers who died on the beach.

Eleven-year-old Sébastien Zévaco, a resident of Saint-Laurent, played for the first time. The director had preferred to choose a local child, despite the difficulty of shooting with a beginner, to give more reality to this meeting.

Pierre Emmanuel Danan presented his film as a tribute to the liberators and a way to transmit freedom. Born after the events, he wanted to thank with this work those whose commitment had allowed him to live free. The photograph of the report is signed Boudonnet.

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