The Birch-Tree Meadow
2003 · 88 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 258 VOTES · DIR. Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Overview
Myriam, a survivor of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, is a filmmaker and journalist who has spent many years living abroad. She takes part in a memorial event at the town hall in Paris commemorating the liberation of the camp, where she wins a flight to Cracow. At first she refuses to accept the prize, then decides to go.
Dialogue Timeline — 583 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:16 THE BIRCH TREE MEADOW
00:04:41 - Where are you coming from? - New York.
00:06:00 - Really? - Yes.
00:07:24 What number is on your ticket?
00:08:55 - What's that? - Take this...
00:10:51 just after she was selected for the gas chamber.
00:12:17 The SS chose us by looking at us, not by calling our numbers.
00:22:07 "Tired, old people and children, get in the truck!"
00:26:24 Madeleine, Michelle, Rachel...
00:29:47 You shouldn't do that here, Madam.
00:34:25 It's empty...
00:35:54 Good night.
00:38:46 full of stones to build the ballasts...
00:43:27 Ashes.
00:50:20 - Something to drink? - Yes... no thanks.
00:52:38 You'd sing us Edith Piaf songs
00:55:14 You're mistaken... near the crematories.
00:56:58 No, you're wrong, we dug just behind the crematories.
01:01:15 Here you are.
01:08:05 They shaved us and tattooed us.
01:11:10 You're condemned to look at it through my eyes...
01:14:47 - Me? - Yes.
01:17:51 to put in corpses, to burn them...
01:24:21 Are you OK?
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed583
Dialogue density6.6 lines / min
First line00:00:16
Final line01:24:21
Production Record
DirectorMarceline Loridan-Ivens
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes258