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Who Calls The Trains

Lyon, 1943. Nazis take over the city. Mass deportations of Jews and political enemies begin. A Jewish piano teacher gets false papers from his Christian girlfriend in the Resistance, but rather than flee, he returns to be with her, at whatever cost.

  • David Gollob
    Author
    Apocalypse Blues
  • David Gollob
    Name of Band or Artist
    Apocalypse Blues
  • Filmed and Edited by Sarah Colombani, London, U.K.
    Who Calls The Trains - Production Credits
  • Featuring Nathalie Boyer, Clermont, France
    Who Calls The Trains - Production Credits
  • 2nd camera: Sylvain Godard, Clermont, France
    Who Calls The Trains - Production Credits
  • Shot entirely on Location in Lyon, France, and Bron, France - September 2020
    Who Calls The Trains - Production Credits
  • Assistant Director: Sonia Potekhina-Marchand, Nuits St.-Georges
    Who Calls The Trains - Production Credits
  • Make-up, Hair and Wardrobe: Vanessa Vierne, Lyon
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  • David Gollob, Sarah Colombani
    Director
  • David Gollob
    Writer
  • David Gollob
    Producer
  • Nathalie BOYER
    Key Cast
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 26 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 1, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Language:
    English, French
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - David Gollob, Sarah Colombani

Montrealer David Gollob writes songs, music, screenplays and fiction. A former journalist and TV News producer, this is his first video-narrative production. He lives in Bordeaux, France. Sarah Colombani is a Corsican photographer and filmmaker based in London. This is also her first music video.

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Director Statement

At a time of increasing racism, ethnic violence and hate crimes, we turned a love song into a Holocaust remembrance project, to pay tribute to victims and survivors of this and every other genocide since, including 90 members of my family brutally murdered by the Nazis during WW2 in the little villages in NE Poland where they had lived peacefully for four centuries. This mini-art film in music video format was shot in Lyon, because of my deep ties to that city and to France, where I now live, a country which has seen a staggering increase in hate crimes and terrorist violence in recent years.