Claude Vigée – From exile to return

Vision

The film “Claude Vigée – From Exile to Return” traces the existential and intellectual journey of the Alsatian Jewish poet Claude Vigée.

Activity

A century of life, from January 3, 1921, to October 2, 2020, that of a committed actor who offers a key to interpreting the contradictions of our time. Thus, the evocation of a happy childhood in the traditional, rural setting of Bischwiller; the war years, the exodus, the resistance in Toulouse with the rediscovery of Judaism after struck by Hitler Antisemitism ; and exile in America.

Vigée is now a recognized poet, an essayist, and a renowned critic. Yet, the Return to Israel is a regenerative experience.

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I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live

- Deuteronomy 30:19

Emmanuel Chouraqui

Emmanuel Chouraqui grew up and lived for the first 30 years of his life in the city of Jerusalem before he moved to Paris.

In Paris he started to direct and produce documentary films. After producing/directing around 50 films on diverse subjects and after his father passed away in July 2007, he directed a film on his father: “André Chouraqui – the writing of the Writings” about the life, the work and the message of the only man in the world (so far) to have translated the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran into French. Since then, Emmanuel is dedicated to implementing the message of his father, a message of universal peace. He is working closely with interfaith organizations in France and around the world.