Press conference in the Cannes harbour for the anticipated film "Le Grand Festival" starring Gérard Depardieu with Anja Kruse... by Menahem Golan.

Based on the best selling book by Aharon Appelfeld.

Producers include: Terra International Film Productions/Austria - Norbert Blecha                      Fullmoon Pictures/Italy - Laura Susanne Ruedeberg                            Cinepartners/Hungary - Jeno Hodi                           GE Entertainment/Israel - Doron Eran                    Bernhard Wolschlager/Vienna of "Globe: Invest AG" - Executive Producer

The films takes place in summer of 1939 in Badenheim, a resort town.  Each year the Jewish elite of Vienna come to the resort town for the annual musical festival, but this year is different when the German sanitation guards shut down the town, keep a close watch on and register all of the Jews in town.