Modus Operandi
A film by Hugues Lanneau
Synopsis
From 1942 to 1944, 24,916 Jewish men, women and children were deported from Belgium to Auschwitz. Only 1,206 survived. Modus Operandi raises and systematically answers the question: How did just a handful of Nazis, with the help, voluntary or unwitting, of the Belgian authorities, bring about their destruction? Many films asked “Why did this happen?”. Modus Operandi tries to find out “How did this happen?”.
Director | Hugues Lanneau | ![]() |
Writer | Diane Perelsztejn | |
Original idea | Willy Perelsztejn | |
Producer | Willy Perelsztejn | |
Associate producers | Wilbur Leguebe Reinhilde Weyns Philippe Sellier |
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French voice over | Marthe Keller | |
Dutch voice over | Chris Lomme | |
English voice over | Corinne Jaber | |
Scientific council | José Gotovitch Jean-Philippe Schreiber Luis Angel Bernardo y Garcia Yvan Sevenans Jean-Jacques Jespers Willy Perelsztejn |
98 minutes – Stereo – Colour
A coproduction © Les Films de la Mémoire – Création et Mémoire – Triangle7 – RTBF – VRT – Shema Israël – Ceges-Soma – Musée juif de la déportation et de la résistance – La Wetterenoise
With the support of le Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique et des télédistributeurs wallons, la Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles, la Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, la Loterie Nationale, le Tax Shelter du gouvernement fédéral de Belgique et ING Tax Shelter de ING Tax Shelter Productions, filiale d’ING Belgium SA. Nominated at the Jewish Film Festival Berlin 2009 (Germany) |
18.000 viewers in theaters, including 10.000 teenagers from 60 cities of Belgium.
10th of May 2010 – RTBF – 108.652 viewers
11th of May 2010 – VRT / Canvas – 395.551 viewers
With over 504.000 viewers, Modus Operandi is the second best result on Belgian television for a french-speaking Belgian film in recent years, after Palme d’Or winner L’Enfant by the Dardenne brothers.
Visit the official website: www.film-modusoperandi.be