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Chronique Des Années Tristes
Chronique Des Années Tristes

Chronique Des Années Tristes

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Drama

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Here is a film that is, to say the least, singular. A fiction filmed under Giscard, in two farming families, one in Brittany and the other in Languedoc. One sees the Catholic mass and the mass of the television news, one hears the Benedicite and the Internationale, a rural class struggle is played out, daily peasants against the aristos in the middle of a hunt...Chronicle of the Sad Years tells the story of the new forms of subjection suffered by the workers of the land, discovering the perverse effects of the CAP and the growing influence of agribusiness. A film in which the director, Alain Aubert-Dechartre, stages a historical turning point, the forced conversion of peasants into technicians of farms of which they will be the first to be exploited

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Runtime

57 mins

Rating

10/10

Release Date

01 January 1977

Country

France

Cast

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