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22nd June, 1941, 3 am: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union. Code name: Barbarossa, one of the fiercest confrontations in human history.

Between June and December 1941, ten million soldiers will combat in monstrously huge battles… Five million men, women and children will perish.

How has the USSR managed to remain standing in the face of such an assault? The Stalinian Regime emphasizes the role of the Great Patriotic War, but the voices emerging from the brazier are telling a whole other story…

Thomas SIPP

Author & Film Director

  • Thomas Sipp is a French director, working on video and sound documentaries.

    Both his films and videos have been broadcast both by French national television channels (France 3, ARTE, Canal +, Planète) and by international ones (RTBF, TSR, TVE) and been exhibited in many festivals and galleries, in France and beyond. He has directed two webseries on typography, for instance with Safari Typo! (2016) or Sacrés Charactères (2014), the latter has been selected at the MIFA and the Berlin Short Film Festival. He has  an interest in history, directing two episodes (-52, Alésia and La Bataille de Borodino, La Moskova) for the ARTE series Quand l’histoire fait date in 2020.

    He is a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse.

Thomas Sipp is a French director, working on video and sound documentaries.

Both his films and videos have been broadcast both by French national television channels (France 3, ARTE, Canal +, Planète) and by international ones (RTBF, TSR, TVE) and been exhibited in many festivals and galleries, in France and beyond. He has directed two webseries on typography, for instance with Safari Typo! (2016) or Sacrés Charactères (2014), the latter has been selected at the MIFA and the Berlin Short Film Festival. He has  an interest in history, directing two episodes (-52, Alésia and La Bataille de Borodino, La Moskova) for the ARTE series Quand l’histoire fait date in 2020.

He is a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse.

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