A seventy-five-minute documentary featuring outtakes from "Chronicle of a Summer" (1961), along with new interviews with co-director Edgar Morin and some of the film’s participants.
Writer
Myriam, a survivor of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, is a filmmaker and journalist who has spent many years living abroad. She takes part in a memorial event at the town hall in Paris commemorating the liberation of the camp, where she wins a flight to Cracow. At first she refuses to accept the prize, then decides to go.
Director
Directed by Joris Ivens and Jean-Pierre Sergent.
Director
Document filmed in 1965 by two journalists in the self-defense zone of Rio Chiquito just before and during the attack of a FARC guerrilla group by the Government army.
Director
Documentary on the beginnings of Algerian independence filmed during the summer of 1962 in Algiers. The film was banned in France and Algeria but won the Grand Prize at the Leipzig International Film Festival in 1965. Out of friendship, the production company Images de France sent an operator, Bruno Muel, who later declared: "For those who were called to Algeria (for me, 1956-58), participating in a film on independence was a victory over horror, lies and absurdity. It was also the beginning of my commitment to the cinema."
Himself
Paris, Verão de 1960. O antropólogo e cineasta Jean Rouch, assim como o sociólogo e crítico de cinema Edgar Morin, ambos ajudados por Marceline e Nadine, perambulam pelas ruas lotadas perguntando às pessoas comuns como elas lidam com as desgraças da vida. Você está feliz? Mas o seu verdadeiro objectivo é descobrir se as pessoas podem dizer a verdade diante de uma câmara e como reagem quando lhes é pedido que analisem o significado das suas respostas.
