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Interview with Bruno Muel and Christian Corouge, former members of Sochaux's Medvedkine group, filmed at La Hestejada de las arts in Uzeste, by Olivier Azam (co-founder and member of the Mutins de Pangée cooperative). "A trace in the collective and working-class memory". (Christian Corouge)
The Three Cousins is a comedy-drama by René Vautier released in 1970 about the living conditions of three Algerian immigrant cousins looking for work in Paris. Housed in a narrow construction shed, the coal stove will cause them to suffocate. The Three Cousins won the Best Human Rights Film Award in Strasbourg in 1970.
Documentary filmed in 1965 by two journalists in the remote town of Rio Chiquito, Colombia, a self-proclaimed communist "republic." The film shows the live of villagers and guerilleros before and after an attack by Colombian government forces.
The daily life of Luanda's orphans, the child soldiers who took part in Angola's war of independence. Now that their country has been liberated, they work in the sugar cane and palm oil factories. Lopes, aged 10, forms an orchestra and sings A luta continua, the rallying cry that also covers the painted walls of Luanda.
Witnesses tell of the day the police took over the Peugeot factories in Sochaux on strike for 22 days. Balance: two dead, one hundred and fifty wounded. The first film by Sochaux's Medvedkine group, this film recounts one of the most violent episodes of May 68: the murder of two Peugeot factory workers by a CRS brigade during clashes on June 11, 1968. The film was shown two years later, on June 11, 1970, in a cinema opposite the factory, on the day commemorating the death of the two workers.
Bruno Muel's documentary on the coup in Chile in 1973. Muel, who was part of the famed Medvedkine group, along with Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard, among others, captured one of the most powerful portraits of the early days of Dictatorship. Profound solidarity with the socialist cause, Muel and his team showed great courage to mix the official registration of images with those triumphant, clandestine, of the nascent opposition.
A famous documentary about the Peugeot factory in Sochaux in the 1970s. In this region, everything is owned by Peugeot: homes, stores, schools and leisure - there is no escaping it. The production line dictates the rhythm of everyday life: a horrible machine, draining workers' energy and hope.
Guerre du peuple en Angola focuses on the situation in Angola in June 1975, when the declaration of independence sparks the start of a civil war. The filmmakers, who went there to train young Angolan filmmakers, bring back this film, unequivocally presenting the war as the struggle of the people and their movement against imperialism and its allies. In the north, in the forests, villagers have joined the armed resistance and support the MPLA.
A group of young militant workers, OS at the Peugeot plant, solicited at home by the in-house recruiters, disembark in Sochaux carrying all their belongings on their backs and immediately snatched up by the chains of the Peugeot empire, manufacturing chain, bachelor hotel chain, Peugeot department store chain, jokingly named Ravi...
A documentary about the Baumettes prison, in Marseille, France.
In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.