Yvette, Léon and the others are between 70 and 80 years old. They live in different countrysides, but each of them has been living in the same house for years, in this land where they were born.
They were farmers and had a hard work life in the fields and ranchs. Now, at the border of the modern life, they are retired and receive small pensions. To look at these deep-rooted persons is a way to reconsider our present time.
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duration
51 minutes
camera
Damien Fritsch
sound
Jennyfer Bec, Damien Fritsch
editing
Christine Benoit, Damien Fritsch
music
Yuko Oshima, Adrien Dennenfeld
sound mixer
Marc Rodicq
a coproduction
dora productions / France 3 Alsace / France 3 Bourgogne Franche-Comté
grants
Centre National de la Cinématographie
Région Alsace, Région Franche-Comté, Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg, Procirep, Angoa, Acigoa
festivals
Cinéma du réel, Etats Généraux du Documentaire Lussas, Lama (Corse ), Champs Contrechamps (Vic en Bigorre), Conviviales de Nannay, Entrevues (Belfort), Visages ( suisse ) - 1er Prix festival Caméra des champs 2005 et prix du jury lycéen (Ville sur Yron), 1er Prix ex-aequo aux Rencontres du moyen-métrage de Brive.
In1907 EmileKuntz's father leftAlsace,thenGerman,forBrazil, where he diedtragicallya fewdaysafterhisarrival.Nearlyacenturylater,Emiledoes notknowmuch aboutthis storybutthismysteryhas haunted himlikeBrazilfascinates him.
“I see neither forms nor light, nothing, absolutely nothing. But I’m not in the dark, I see nothing“, says Jean-Michel, who is blind from birth, like the other characters in the film.
