Paul Celan: the Poet Who Speaks Humanly (2015)
• June 25th, 2015 • 0h 52min
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Documentary on the life of the great Romanian-Jewish poet Paul Celan. Tormented by the experiences of the Holocaust, he committed suicide in Paris in 1970 in the Seine. For the first time, the poet's son, Eric Celan, speaks in front of the camera about his father and the difficult life of the family.
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