Actua 1 (1968)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 6M
Director : Philippe Garrel
Synopsis
A film considered almost lost even by Garrel, who recently found his negatives. Shot during the events of the May 68, it was made collectively; the film is a merge of Garrel’s and his partners’ points of view, all of them students and filmmakers that participated in the revolt.
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