I AM ALIVE AND I LOVE YOU
(JE SUIS VIVANTE ET JE VOUS AIME)
A FILM BY ROGER KAHANE
CAST: JÉRÔME DESCHAMPS
AGNÈS SORAL
DORIAN LAMBERT
CO-PRODUCTION:
13 PRODUCTION, TO DO TO DAY PRODUCTIONS, RTBF BRUXELLES, ASP (BUDAPEST)
35 mm - 95 minutes - Color
1998
THE STORY
March 1944. One by one, a railway worker checks the axle bearings of a camp train. A slip of paper is hastily thrown out of one of the leaded wagons. It carries an address and a few words scribbled on the back : " I'm alive and I love you. Sarah. " Julien doesn't know it but his fate is sealed. As the days go by, a strange love story unfolds that will tie him forever to this Sarah whom he has never seen. At the indicated address, the elderly parents have vanished, but Sarah's son, a little boy of four is there, sole survivor of the raid. Along with him, Julien will embark on a long journey that will take him to the end of the war.


"So powerful, so true, so obviously simple." France-soir
"Sober, moving, rigorous." Télé 7 jours
  • Public prize at the Forum, Festival de Cannes 1998
  • Public prize at the Namur Festival 1998 (13th International Festival of french-speaking cinema