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Tati's lost film reveals family's pain | Pj News| Latest Daily ...

, Will finally make it to the screen after 54 years, when director Sylvain Chomet’s animated version has its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, Berlinale , next month. But the occasion threatens to be overshadowed by a story of pain and scandal from the real life of the French comedian.

Chomet’s treatment of Tati’s poignant tale has been much awaited since his award-winning 2003 animation, ­ tells of an old-fashioned, ageing magician whose encounter with a young girl changes his life, in a narrative believed to have been written by Tati as a personal message to his teenage daughter.

In 2000, the screenplay was handed over to Chomet by Tati’s daughter, Sophie, two years before her death. Now, however, the family of Tati’s illegitimate and estranged eldest child, Helga Marie-Jeanne Schiel, who lives in the north-east of England, are calling for the French director to give her credit as the true inspiration for the film.

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Helga’s story, kept quiet during her childhood to protect her father’s reputation, came to light when news of Chomet’s plans for the film were made public and Richard McDonald travelled to Northumberland where the film was being made. The McDonalds’ claims were originally researched and verified by the academic and biographer David Bellos, who had been approached by the family after his book about Tati was published in 1999.

Tati, born Jacques Tatischeff in 1907, originally met Helga’s Austrian emigrée mother, Herta Schiel, when she and her sister were working with him in music-hall theatre in Paris during the German Occupation. When Herta became pregnant, Tati’s formidable sister Nathalie, a wealthy businesswoman, advised him not to marry. Eventually, Herta was persuaded to sign a legal document releasing the performer from his duties as a father in return for money and she left the country with her baby, going on to marry another man.

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