Watch ‘Colette,’ the moving Oscar-nominated short film from N.J. director
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Colette Marin-Catherine fought back against the Nazis as a girl in France.
Her brother, Jean-Pierre, died at the German Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp after being arrested as a member of the French Resistance when he was 17.
And for 74 years, she swore she’d never go to Germany.
In the Oscar-nominated short film “Colette” (watch above), director Anthony Giacchino documented how she broke that promise after meeting Lucie Fouble, a young history student and docent at a World War II museum near Saint-Omer, France.
“Once I cross into Germany, I won’t ever be the same,” Marin-Catherine says in the film.