A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including workers' strikes and the events of Paris in May '68.
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Cast
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Chris Marker
Also in
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
L’indispensable
Jean-Denis Bonan
Also in
The Rape of the Vampire
Sadness of the Anthropophagi
Gérard Fromanger
Philippe Garrel
Jean-Luc Godard
Known for
Breathless
Contempt
Jean-Pierre Gorin
Jacques Loiseleux
Jackie Raynal
Known for
La Collectionneuse
Alain Resnais
Also in
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Morceaux de Cannes
Jean-Luc Godard Director · Chris Marker Director Alain Resnais Director
First release May 31, 1968 · Produced in France · Production Societe pour le Lancement des Oeuvres Nouvelles (SLON)
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ISKRA
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Societe pour le Lancement des Oeuvres Nouvelles (SLON)
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France
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French
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No dialogue
Release dates
France · May 31, 1968
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No release date listed for United States.
France
January 18, 2020 · Limited theatrical
Greece
June 14, 2014 · Limited theatrical · Greek Film Archive
United Kingdom
August 18, 1968 · Premiere · Art Lab Cinema
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