Gerboise bleue
A Feature film of
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Production year2008
French release11/02/2009
Runtime1 h 30 min
Synopsis
Gerboise Bleue tells the story of French veterans and Algerian Tuaregs who were victims of the first French atomic tests in the Sahara carried out between 1960 and 1966.
For the first time, the last remaining survivors recount their struggle to achieve official recognition that the exposure to the tests resulted in illnesses, and reveal the conditions in which these tests really took place.
For the first time, I went to Gerboise Bleue’s ground zero, the first French atomic bomb test in the air four times superior to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, where access has been forbidden for 47 years by the Algerian authorities.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Kalame Films
- French distribution : Shellac
Full credits (9)
- Screenwriter : Djamel Ouahab
- Director of Photography : Djamel Ouahab
- Music Composer : Hugues Tabar-Nouval
- Assistant director : Marie Emery
- Editor : Djamel Ouahab
- Production Manager : Sadek Djermoune
- Press Attaché (film) : Stanislas Baudry
- Sound Editor : Marc Nouyrigat
- Sound Mixer : Frédéric Théry
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2008
News & awards
Selections (2)
Tübingen | Stuttgart International French-language Film Festival
Germany, 2009
International Competition
