Casting (2001)

In the mid-1990s, while preparing the films "Madame Jacques sur la Croisette" and "Voyages", Emmanuel Finkiel organized a casting in the French Ashkenazi community. Speakers Yiddish aged sixty to ninety, the many candidates are bursting the screen. From interviews to comedy essays, everyone appropriates the text, comments, digresses. Very quickly, scenarios and memories, reality and fiction merge; the faces, the testimonies are superimposed to reveal a whole world both near and far.