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Seventeen-year-old Lucie Fouble is the sensation of the Oscar award-winning documentary,
Colette, which follows 93-year-old former resistance fighter, Colette Marin Catherine, to the concentration camp Nordhausen-Dora, where her brother Jean-Pierre was assassinated. Nordhausen-Dora, a dependency of the Buchenwald camp, is notably where Wernher Von Braun, father of the space conquest, developed the V2 missile. Buchenwald was also where prominent French aircraft designer, Marcel Dassault, refused even in front of the gas chamber to collaborate to the fabrication of a future Franco-German interceptor which would likely have changed the course of the war in Germany’s favor. Lucie Fouble is currently working on the
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Previously…
In its 93 years the Academy Awards have seen some strange occurrences.
In 1973, Marlon Brando, who was announced as the winner of the Best Actor Award, sent an actress pretending to be a Native American up to the podium to refuse the award, citing the way Native American’s were portrayed in films.
The next year, David Niven was startled when freelance photographer Robert Opel decided to “streak” across the stage behind them. I always thought that this was a set-up. The camera angle was such that none of Mr. Opel’s nether-region was shown and Mr. Niven was awful quick and his quip: “The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is from stripping off and showing his shortcomings!”