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The Ghosts Of The Sanatorium

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a film by Frederic Goldbronn 60'On the morning of 18 March 1942, after a long train journey through occupied France, the young Roland Barthes arrived at the student sanatorium at Saint Hilaire in the Alps.

He soon discovered this strange "World above", where the anguish of death and the constraints of treatment were combined with the promise of rebirth. To a friend who had stayed far away, he recounts an experience that is both social and intimate, one that shakes him to the core and resonates powerfully with our own times.

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technical data:

duration	60 minutes
camera	Jacques Besse, Djamila Daddi-addoun, Adeline Raibon
sound	Samuel Mittelmann
editing	Anne Baudry
music	Louis Chenu
mixing	Samuel Mittelmann
production	Les films-cabanes / coprod. Lyon Capitale TV
grants	Fonds d'aide à l'innovation audiovisuelle CNC, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, CNC, PROCIREP-ANGOA, SACEM, Département de l'Isère, Communauté Le Grésivaudan, Fondation santé des étudiants de France, Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon.
festivals	Traces de vies Clermont-Ferrand 2021, Festival international du film de montagne Autrans 2021, Rencontres Cinémaginaire Argelès 2021
distribution	dora films

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