Les Années Mao
Bernard Debord
2005 - 55 min - Beta numérique - Couleur - France

The French Maoists never numbered more than 10,000, but in the divisions of the 60s and 70s, they monopolised the street and the media for a decade, drawing the cream of French arts, literature and the performing arts into their combat, from Sartre to Godard, from Genet to Foucault and the Rolling Stones, joining the social movements that would leave their mark on subsequent decades. From the ransacking of Fauchon's to the Bruay affair, from Renault-Flins to MLF, from Nino Ferrer to Libé, from La Chinoise to the The Barbarian Invasions, this film looks back on this page of frenzied history through the men and women who wrote it: Serge July, Alain Geismar, Gérard Miller, Dominique Grange, Roland Castro, Bernard Debord included.