Synopsis
The role of the doctor in a factory. The investigations he makes to discover the origin of ailments which attack the workers in a large chemical factory.
Credits
Actors (2)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Les Films Jacqueline Jacoupy
Full credits (7)
- Screenwriter : Rémo Forlani
- Directors of Photography : Sacha Vierny, Ghislain Cloquet
- Music Composer : Pierre Barbaud
- Editors : Anne Sarraute, Alain Resnais
- Producer : Jacqueline Jacoupy
- Narration Writer : Chris Marker
- Narrator : Jean-Pierre Grenier
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Themes : Medicine
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1957
- Runtime : 19 min
- Visa number : 19616
- Visa issue date : 23/05/1957
- Production formats : 16mm
- Color type : Black & White
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Resnais conceives the cutting, assures the preparation and the editing, but has to delegate the shooting to his former assistant André Heinrich.
" Resnais suggests (except precise notes), brings people to do exactly what he wishes without imposing anything on them []. They said that The Mystery was the least good short film by Resnais. As far as the movie is a little of me, I am sure that it is my best short film. "
André Heinrich, " The Avant-Scène cinema ", in July-September, 1966.
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🏆 This short film won the César Award 2024 for Best Short Film (Fiction)