Main basse sur la mémoire, les pièges de la Loi Gayssot

Directed by Béatrice Pignède
Produced by Clap 36
Genres : Documentary - Runtime : 1 h 48 min
French release : 01/02/2012
Production year : 2012

Director

Béatrice
Pignède

About

Our collective memory is marked by the images of atrocities commited during World War Two, in particular by the Nazis. In order to guarantee that the "hideous beast" can no longer return, legislation has produced three memorable laws, including the French Gayssot Act of 1990, which makes it an offense in France to question the existence or the size of the category of crimes against humanity, as defined by the Nuremburg international military tribunal. After twenty years of application, there are many historians, philosophers, and politicians of all kinds, even among the judicial apparatus, who denounce the slip-ups that this law has engendered. Genocidal one-upmanship, quarrels about what event produced the most victims, a renewal of nationalist identity and racist issues, enormous misappropriation of funds. This film questions this liberticidal spiral. What meaning can be found in what appears to be a real seize and takeover of our memory?

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Main basse sur la mémoire, les pièges de la Loi Gayssot

Main basse sur la mémoire, les pièges de la Loi Gayssot

Main basse sur la mémoire, les pièges de la Loi Gayssot

Main basse sur la mémoire, les pièges de la Loi Gayssot

Main basse sur la mémoire, les pièges de la Loi Gayssot

Main basse sur la mémoire, les pièges de la Loi Gayssot

Main basse sur la mémoire, les pièges de la Loi Gayssot

Main basse sur la mémoire, les pièges de la Loi Gayssot

Main basse sur la mémoire, les pièges de la Loi Gayssot - Béatrice Pignède

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Production and distribution

Associate production company : Clap 36
French distribution : Clap 36

Full credits

Screenwriter : Béatrice Pignède
Directors of Photography : Béatrice Pignède, Flora Joly, Amar Hamdani, Jean-Sébastien Farez, Christophe-Emmanuel Del Debbio
Editor : Béatrice Pignède
Music Composers : Thibault Renou, Misja Michel
Graphic Designer : Jean-Sébastien Farez

Technical details

Feature film
Genres : Documentary
Production language : French
Production year : 2012
French release : 01/02/2012
Runtime : 1 h 48 min
Current status : Released
Color type : Color
Official website : www.clap36.net