Symphonie (1979) Boris Lehman (ENG SUB)

Groupe cinéma du club Antonin Artaud Script & actor: Romain Schneid Directed by Boris Lehman Symphonie mixes fiction and reality. Before the camera Romain Schneid tells us the story of his claustrophobia, which started when at the age of twelve during the Nazi occupation, as a Jew he could not leave the tiny flat where he was hiding. He relates his story and plays all the characters of his tragedy all by himself. He invents, distorts, imagines a different end. He is at the same time author, narrator and actor/actors. Has he really gone through the things he talks about or do they merely exist in his head? Are we witnessing a testimony or a delusion? The story happens in our time. There is neither a “reconstruction”, nor a staging of the past. Nor is this a film about the sinister story of the Nazis.