Synopsis
Men and women in the 1930 or 1940. They could have been our grandparents. How to love without making eight children? How to reconcile catholic morality and conjugal love? Why is the pleasure guilty? Abbot Viollet, maybe, will know how to answer all his questions. An easy job.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (9)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Local Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : L'Agence du court métrage
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Nicolas Brevière
- Screenwriter : Blandine Lenoir
- Director of photography : Pénélope Pourriat
- Music Composer : Fantazio
- Editor : Stéphanie Araud
- Sound Recordist : Dimitry Haulet
- Costume designer : Claire Gérard-Hirne
- Author of original work : Martine Sevegrand
- Production manager : Nadège Verrier
- Sound Editor : Dimitry Haulet
- Production Designer : Téophile De Montalivet
- Sound Mixer : Hubert Teissèdre
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation
- Themes : Freedom, Motherhood, Medicine, Human nature , Religion, Femininity, Sociology
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2010
- Runtime : 35 min 17 seconds
- Visa number : 124.713
- Visa issue date : 11/06/2010
- Production formats : HD-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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About
Adapted from L'Amour en toutes lettres, questions à l'abbé Viollet sur la sexualité (1924-1943) Published by Albin Michel Editions.
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