A 40-minute documentary produced by by Ewa Cendrowska for Polish television. The story of the high school and the fighting in the Vercors was discussed at the reunion of Villardians in 1986.

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A general presentation by Vercors TV, a feature film by Rafaël Lewandowski on the life of Zygmunt Lubicz Zaleski, and a Polish documentary on a reunion of former students.

Commissioned by our association, Vercors TV produced a short documentary covering the entire history of the school. Produced by the Zaleski Foundation, Rafaël Lewandowski’s feature film on the life of Zygmunt Lubicz-Zaleski is largely devoted to the history of the school. The documentary made in the 1980s by Ewa Cendrowska is a sensitive account of a gathering of former students and teachers.

9.3.1 Foyer des libertés (“Cradle of Freedom” ).

Foyer des Libertés, Cradle of Freedom documentary

—Geneviève Rouillon. Vercors TV - 2020

A 20-minute documentary tracing the history of the school through interviews and photos. Clear and complete. Also available in Polish and English.

9.3.2 À une certaine distance de l’orchestre (“A Certain Distance from the Orchestra”).

—Rafaël Lewandowski. Zaleski Foundation - 2017

Full-length documentary produced by the Zaleski Foundation on the life of Zygmunt Lubicz-Zaleski, the high school’s founder.

” Zigmunt Lubicz-Zaleski was a writer, poet and academic, as well as a pianist and art critic, a diplomat, resistance fighter, former deportee and staunch Polish patriot who spent most of his life in France. A figure of twentieth-century European history whose destiny and scope of action command admiration and respect.”

The trailer is available here. The Fondation Zaleski ## https://zygmuntzaleskistichting.pl/[/link] is responsible for distributing the film.

9.3.3 Retour au Vercors (“Return to the Vercors”).

DVD: Retour au Vercors (“Return to the Vercors”), a documentary by Ewa Cendrowska.

—Ewa Cendrowska. Powrót do Vercors - Polish TV - 1987

40-minute documentary for Polish television about one of the alumni reunions.

Le Dauphiné Libéré (French regional newspaper) wrote: “The simplicity of this documentary and the unadorned vision of the return journey allow for a connection with History with a capital ‘H ‘.”

9.3.4 Interview with Édouard Renn.

Interview with RENN at the Musée de la Résistance in Vassieux-en-Vercors.

—Department of Drôme. 2012

Interview with Édouard Renn by the Drôme department for the Vercors Resistance Museum in Vassieux en Vercors.

Édouard Renne describes his life before and after his time at the secondary school, and above all talks about his experience of the fighting at Vassieux-en-Vercors.

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