A young filmmaker joins a tour of WWII veterans from the 29th Infantry through celebrations surrounding the 70th anniversary of D-Day in a quest to better know her late grandfather.
Direction
Juergens inserts herself without vanity—rare for personal docs.
Editing
Veterans' present fragility against archival brutality.
Director
Charlotte Juergens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Juergens was 22 when filming, same age many 29th Infantry soldiers hit Normandy—she weaponizes that parallel brutally.
Released as 'greatest generation' nostalgia peaked, this refuses easy hero worship—veterans here are cranky, racist, dying, and desperately alive.
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