Synopsis
Robert worked for 17 years at the Renault plant in Saint-Ouen. André, Jan and Stan worked more than 20 years at the Renault plant in Vilvorde. They went through the same thing, in the same company, at six years interval : restructuring and massive layoffs. The plant in Saint-Ouen closed in 1991, the one in Vilvorde went from 3 000 employees to 300 in 1997, after the strike we all heard about. They tell their stories : about the factory before, the management's strategies to get them to accept the restructuring plans, and after, the ever more difficult search for new employment fot the thousands of workers laid off each time.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Les Films d'Ici
Full credits (5)
- Executive Producer : Richard Copans
- Screenwriter : Hervé Le Roux
- Director of photography : Dominique Perrier
- Editor : Nadine Tarbouriech
- Sound Recordist : Frédéric Ullman
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : Society, Economics
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1999
- Runtime : 32 min
- Visa number : 95.315
- Visa issue date : 23/09/1999
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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