Voyage à Bessèges, des rails à la française
Synopsis
A Swiss director learns with dismay that the railway line he used as a child to reach his holiday home in the Cévennes has closed. He undertakes to make the same trip by taking only the train. His journey, which turns into an obstacle course, allows him to discover the scandalous history of the dismantlement of the French railway, a policy that goes against current ecological ambitions.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Tripode Productions
- Foreign production company : PCT cinéma télévision
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Delphine Schmit
- Screenwriters : Manuel Lobmaier, Marie Poitevin
- Assistant director : Marie Poitevin
- Editor : Xavier Franchomme
- Sound Recordist : Simon César Forclaz
- Foreign Producer : Pierre-André Thiébaud
- Associate Producer : Guillaume Dreyfus
- Sound editor : Audrey Daram
- Graders : Saul Mêmeteau, Yann Gourhant
- Sound mixer : Audrey Daram
- Participants : Jean-François Michelet, Clémentine Aznar
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Research - Experimental
- Themes : Travel, Politics
- Production language : French, German
- Coproducer countries : Switzerland (66.0%), France (34.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Switzerland, France)
- Production year : 2020
- Runtime : 52 min 29 seconds
- Visa number : 154.105
- Visa issue date : 14/12/2020
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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