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a film by Daniel Coche, 52' After a tortuous journey that began in Ukrainian mountains, African cities or Sri Lankan countrysides, David, Rémy, Lilianne, Balan and Uma have arrived on the banks of the Rhine.

They are refugees. Political refugees or asylum seekers, they recount their journey: the untold suffering, the abandonment of their country, the difficulty to start all over again. Several issues arise throughout their story: how to escape the pain, how to survive and go on? An intimate film, attentive to survivors.

technical data :
duration	52 minutes
script	Daniel Coche and Simone Fluhr
camera	Daniel Coche
sound	Richard Harmelle
editing	Matthieu Boetsch
sound mixer	Grégoire Deslandes
production	dora productions / France 3 Alsace
grants	Centre National de la Cinématographie, Procirep, Fonds d'action sociale
	Communauté urbaine de Strasbourg, Région Alsace

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© dora productions 2001

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