Emmanuel Finkiel, director of "La Chambre de Mariana" : "J" was emotionally connected to what I was filming"

In an interview with the "World", the filmmaker explains that the book by Aharon Appelfeld, of which his film is adapted, echoes his own family novel.

Emmanuel Finkiel made the adaptation to the cinema of this beautiful novel by Aharon Appelfeld. An admirable Melanie Thierry plays Mariana, a Ukrainian prostitute who, in 1943, hides the son of her childhood friend in a small room next to the room where she receives her clients.