A documentary film written by Denis Becker & Jean-Baptiste Martin,
directed by Denis Becker |  | |
Broadcast on France 3 Alsace in 2009 Coproduction with FRANCE TELEVISIONS (France 3 Alsace) - 52 minutes (2009) | | |
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 | | The director Denis Becker (on the left, in red) and the french researcher Patrick Baumann (on the right, in blue) on the research setting of Ebermunster (Alsace, France) |
SUMMARY
This documentary tells the narrative of the great air battles that took place during World War Two between France and Germany.
The history of these aerial combats is told under the form of an investigation led by passionate characters : French and German researchers and archeologists who dig the earth searching for the buried tracks of the crashed planes.
Main speakers & settings
France :
Patrick Baumann, Antoine Baumann & Marc Baumann
"Association of the Aerial Memory of the East of France"
Military Aerial site 132 of Colmar-Meyenheim, Lieutenant-colonel Poncet
Lieutenant-colonel Kuzniak
Adjudant-chef Belle
City of Strasbourg
Bomb disposal experts of Sainte Croix en Plaine, Dominique Berlet
Flying Club of Belfort, Eric Knauss
Museum of the fightings of WWII of the "Poche de Colmar"
The city of Ebersmunster, Richard Jean
Henri Payre and his plane Stinson
Chris Vogelgesang and his plane Yak 3
René Steydli and his son
Michaël Lafont
Germany :
Hans Ekkehard BOB
Werner Kilchling
Uwe Benkel and his son Jonas
Karl Benz
Meier Motors GbR, Akim and Elmar Meier
Die tauschergruppe Pinguins
Great Britain :
Duxford Airshow & The Imperial War Museum
USA :
Sam Cole
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