Paul Celan: the Poet Who Speaks Humanly

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Released June 25, 2015

Overview

Documentary on the life of the great Romanian-Jewish poet Paul Celan. Tormented by the experiences of the Holocaust, he committed suicide in Paris in 1970 in the Seine. For the first time, the poet's son, Eric Celan, speaks in front of the camera about his father and the difficult life of the family.