Synopsis
In 1960 Mario Ruspoli filmed a documentary in the psychiatric hospital of St-Alban, in Lozère. A brave decision at a time when mental illness was a taboo subject brushed under the carpet by society.
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Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Argos Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution, Cité Films
Full credits (6)
- Executive Producer : Anatole Dauman
- Screenwriters : Antonin Artaud, Mario Ruspoli
- Directors of Photography : Michel Brault, Roger Morillière
- Editors : Jacqueline Meppiel, Henri Lanoë, Henri Colpi
- Sound recordists : Danièle Tessier, Roger Morillière, Dolorès Grassian
- Artistic Director : Henri Colpi
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : Insanity
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1962
- Runtime : 47 min
- Visa number : 26015
- Visa issue date : 02/10/1962
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
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“Using his wonderful images, Mario Ruspoli invites us to experience mental illness for the first time, and to understand not only that people are not mad, but that the mad are all people.”
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