Synopsis
Jules Durand, a coal laborer at the dockyards of Le Havre and trade union activist, was sentenced to death in November 1910 for a crime he did not commit. Known as the "Dreyfus of the working class," he was declared innocent by the Supreme Court in 1918, but spent the rest of his life in a mental institution. No records of this case remain. In present-day Le Havre, Sylvestre Meinzer went out to meet with men and women who had known Durand: union representatives, judges, lawyers, psychiatrists, neighbors, family members, and others. They all remember the case and search their minds for memories of the workers' struggles at the time and the class-based justice system which Jules Durand has come to symbolize.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producers : Marc Boyer, Isabelle Chesneau
- Directors of Photography : Claire Childéric, Sylvestre Meinzer, Thomas Lallier
- Music Composer : Isabelle Berteletti
- Editor : Sylvestre Meinzer
- Sound recordists : Dominique Vieillard, Graciela Barrault
- Voice : Pierre Arditi
- Sound editors : Sylvestre Meinzer, Isabelle Berteletti
- Sound Mixer : Adam Wolny
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2017
- French release : 25/10/2017
- Runtime : 1 h 21 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 145.331
- Approval :
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1