The Unfortunates

A Short film of

Éléonore Saintagnan

Produced by

red shoes | SOME SHOES

Production year2012

Runtime33 min

Synopsis

To preserve the memory of bowling game, some players of a region in France, the Montreuillois, recreate a tournament on an old abandonned playground. Memory of a practice and a forgotten time wakes up then. In the games, to allow looser teams to keep on playing, an alternative competition is organized : the « Unfortunates ». A context as a pretext for the observation and study of a community made by some characters of the north of France, with their story tellings and their daily life around a game which gather people. A serie of inhabitants portraits.

Credits

Director (1)

Éléonore Saintagnan
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Production and distribution (1)

Executive Producer : red shoes | SOME SHOES

Full credits (7)

Executive Producer : Olga Rozenblum

Director of Photography : Jean-Baptiste Delahaye

Assistant Director : Grégoire Motte-Saintagnan

Editors : Annie Pierre, Éléonore Saintagnan

Sound Recordist : Guillaume Serpereau

Executive Producer : Olga Rozenblum

Sound Mixer : Mikaël Kandelman

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Technical details

Type : Short film
Genres : Documentary
Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Portrait
Themes : Traditions, Monde rural, Leisure
Production language : French
Production country : France
Original French-language productions : Unspecified
Nationality : 100% French (France)
Production year : 2012
Runtime : 33 min 1 seconds
Visa number : 135.919
Visa issue date : 16/06/2015
Production formats : HD
Color type : Color
Aspect ratio : 16/9
Audio format : Stereo
Rating restrictions : None

Resources

Website(1)

redshoes.fr/les-malchanceux/

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