What ever happened to Rosemary Kennedy?

(BE, FR)

Short film - Documentary

Finished - Minor

2018 - 52 min 30 sec - Portrait - Français

Broadcasting date : 01/02/19

Director : Patrick Jeudy

Casting : Christophe Malavoy

Producer : Eklektik Productions (BE), Hauteville Productions (FR)

Partners : RTBF , Flach Film Production, France Télévisions et du Centre national du cinéma et de lâ??image animée. De AB Thématiques pour Toute lâ??Histoire, VRT, TG4, Czech Television, la PROCIREP â?? Société des Producteurs et de lâ??ANGOA., Taxshelter.be.

International sales : ZED

Synopsis

In 1941, JFK’s sister, Rosemary Kennedy, mysteriously disappeared from public sight after a lobotomy ordered by her own father… 

For the first time, a documentary explores what has remained to this day the Kennedy’s darkest secret, and tells the tells the story of a young woman sacrificed by her family because her fragility was incompatible with the clan’s ambitions.