À l'écoute de la police
Bernard Mangiante
2002 - 72 min - Betacam SX - Couleur - France, Allemagne

Here are some enticing excerpts of an experimental training course where Charles Rojzman uses his "social therapy" method to coach fifteen police officers, who are also the trainers of future policemen in several police academies.
The goal was to alter the "enemy army" perception abounding in "sensitive" neighbourhoods with regards to the police, to that of an efficient public service that is near the weakest populations, whom are normally the first victims of the violence that thwarts democratic life.
Rojzman's political project is to restore democratic living conditions and to consider a future beyond the purely mechanist design of "law under maintenance".
Charles Rojzman accompanies the police officers in experimenting the same emotions as any other human being – fear, hatred, need for recognition, etc...
When Rojzman organizes a meeting and invites four "guests" from difficult neighbourhoods, he creates a stage for conflict in which all protagonists are able to express what opposes them without recurring to violence, as well as commiserate with each other's hopes and sufferings, and even consider the possibility of working together.



Author-Director : Bernard Mangiante
Delegate Producer : Les Films d'ici
Broadcasting Co-producer : France 2
Broadcasting Co-producer : WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) (Cologne)
In association : France 5

Distribution


Distributor : Les Films d'ici
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