Déjà s'envole la fleur maigre
Paul Meyer
1960 - 87 min - 35 mm - Noir & Blanc - Belgique

Already, the coal mines are starting to shut down, causing unemployment and devastating the traditional economy of the region. In spite of the crisis, families try to face their difficulties, while Italian, Greek or Yugoslavian youngsters go to school mixing with their French speaking friends. For a change and to escape from the morally stifling influence of the priest, these kids sitting on pie dishes throw themselves "full of dust" into epic "sliding" races on the forbidden slag heaps, transforming the flat country sung by Brel into a zone full of hills and valleys.

Économie | Enfance | Jeu | Belgique


Author-Director : Paul Meyer
Photography : Freddy Rents, Jules Bechof, Philip Cape, Claude Gabriels
Sound : Roland De Salency, André Goeffers
Editing : Paul Meyer, Rose Tuytschaver
Delegate Producer : Les Films de l'églantine

Distribution


Distributor : Cinémathèque de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Disponible au Club du doc

Distinctions

1994 - Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France) : Programmation ACID 1994