First Run Features presents A Documentary by Charlotte Juergens SUNKEN ROADS Three Generations After D-Day Opens in New York & Los Angeles November 5, 2021
Director Charlotte Juergens In Person in Both Cities!
Don McCarthy was 20 years old on D-Day, when his infantry division landed on Omaha Beach. Don and the other veterans who survived D-Day will someday soon have passed into memory and legend. This realization inspires 20-year-old filmmaker Charlotte Juergens to join Don and seven other D-Day vets on a journey to France – a commemorative pilgrimage to Omaha Beach for the 70th anniversary of the invasion.
The vets come to see Charlotte as a granddaughter, trusting her with their stories as they confront the trauma that still haunts them 70 years after the war. In capturing their lives, Sunken Roads offers an intergenerational perspective on D-Day, presenting the
memories of 90-year-old combat veterans through the eyes of a 20-year-old woman.
