Quote:
"The film [Anne Trister] is fictional, but it has many elements common to the life of Léa Pool, who, like her heroine, was born in Switzerland of Jewish origin and who moved to Canada. [...] Pool's background made her question her identity. Her father was a stateless Jew in Switzerland, a country with only about 20,000 Jews in a population of about seven million."
-- Tony Simons

Source:
Simons, Tony. "Léa Pool: Anne Trister." In Where Are the Voices Coming From?: Canadian Culture and the Legacies of History, edited by Coral Ann Howells. Cross/Cultures 73. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. (pp. 232-233)