Film Discription

Julia Pirotte-Beauty and Strength

Julia Pirotte-Beauty and Strength

|| 2026 || 80 minutes 2025

Countries of productions

Poland / Belgium, France, Poland

Film Type

Documentary

Directors

Ewa Pytka

Producers

Ewa Pytka

Cinematographer

Kacper Lisowski, Piotr Chylarecki

Editors

Wiktor Zmysłowski

Sound Designer

Michał Jankowski

List of film festival

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Awards

Sale

Film Synopsis

The film tells the story of Julia Pirotte, a Polish Jewish photojournalist and Resistance fighter in Marseille during WWII who used her camera to document the French Resistance, the Liberation of Marseille, and the Kielce Pogrom of 1946. Her younger sister Maria, also a Resistance courier, was arrested by the Gestapo and executed by guillotine in Wroclaw. The film recovers two largely untold stories of fearless women in the European struggle against fascism.