_Into the Heart of Darkness
_Synopsis
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…
_Tech Sheet
Format: Documentary
Running time: 2x52'
Status: In production
Versions: French, English
Year: 2023
Author: Thomas SIPP
Director: Thomas SIPP
Producers: Valérianne BOUÉ, Marion GUTH, François LE GALL
Production companies: Les films d’ici (FR), a_BAHN (LU)
Broadcaster: ARTE France (FR)
With the support of: Film Fund Luxembourg (LU), CNC (FR), PROCIREP-ANGOA (FR), SOFICA Cinémage (FR)
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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