Please Madam, Answer Me!
Synopsis
During the interwar years, over 800 young Polish women came to the Indre-et-Loire region to work as domestic servants on farms. We have learned of their stories from letters exchanged between these women and their social worker, Julie Duval. Louis Clergeau, an amateur photographer whose images are interspersed throughout the film, has given faces and bodies to their stories. This film shows a little-known chapter of French immigration history and tells us of the harsh fate of these migrants in the Touraine countryside, a story that is just as distressing today.
Credits
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- Executive Producer : Marc Faye
- Screenwriters : Marie-Laure Désidéri, Christian Argentino
- Directors of Photography : Christian Argentino, Laurent Fénart
- Music Composer : Thomas Gallet
- Editors : Marie-Laure Désidéri, Christian Argentino
- Sound recordist : Marie-Laure Désidéri
- Line Producers : Marc Faye, Magali Hériat, Sacha Mirski, Julien Rougier, Pierre Jeandroz
- Voice : Sandrine Attard
- Production Manager : Marc Faye
- Sound Editor : Pascal Bricard
- Singer : Lidia Majewska
- Grader : Ludovic Vieuille
- Sound Mixer : Pascal Bricard
- Participants : Karolina Chabier, Marie-France Argentino
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Portrait
- Themes : Exile, Exodus, Immigration, Femininity, History
- Production language : Polish, French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2021
- Runtime : 52 min 5 seconds
- Visa number : 151.999
- Visa issue date : 22/03/2021
- Production formats : HD
- Aspect ratio : 1.77
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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