The Workroom [L’Atelier]

<em>The Workroom</em> takes place in France between 1945 and 1952 and chronicles the lives of seamstresses and a tailor who have survived Nazi occupation and struggle in the post-war as well as the Jewish shop owner, who hid in an attic during the Holocaust. One of the seamstresses continues to search for her Jewish husband who was deported.
Format:Full-length drama

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Nationality of Author:French
Experience(s) Chronicled:Survivors and Subsequent Generations
Tags: France, post World War II, tailor, seamstress

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