Contre L'Oubli (1991)
Directed by Denis Amar / Raymond Depardon / Jean-Luc Godard / Patrice Leconte / Alain Resnais / Nadine Trintignant / Sarah Moon / Costa-Gavras / Patrice Chéreau / Romain Goupil / René Allio / Philippe Muyl / Robert Kramer / Chantal Akerman / Jean Becker / Bertrand Blier / Claire Denis / Jacques Doillon / Gerard Frot-Coutaz / Jean-Loup Hubert / Bertrand Tavernier / Jane Birkin / Alain Corneau / Michel Deville / Francis Girod / Coline Serreau / Jean-Michel Carré
Genres - Culture & Society |
Sub-Genres - Social Issues, Politics & Government |
Run Time - 110 min. |
Countries - France |
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain
Amnesty International produced this film, which features more than two dozen greats of French cinema making pleas for the lives of political prisoners around the world. Each filmmaker speaks passionately on behalf of an individual whose life has been warped by political intolerance, imprisonment, torture or murder, as the lives of those prisoners or sufferers are documented onscreen. A variety of directors contributed shorts with this theme, and the ways in which the appeals are dramatized differ markedly from one to the next.
