Bambi

Sébastien Lifshitz

IndieLisboa 2014 •

France, Documentary, 2013, 57′

Bambi was born in a small village in Algeria, in 1935, in the body of a boy named Jean-Pierre Pruvot. In the 50s, as Cabaret Carrousel de Paris travelled to Alger for a performance, she took the opportunity to migrate to France where she began using her stage name ‚ Bambi. In Paris she was part of the vibrant night life of the cabarets in town. Now aged 77, Bambi remembers the life of a transsexual then, her friendships, the scandals and a surprising encounter with the love of her life. A story of rejection and courage documented with an impressive number of photographs and archive films.