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After seeing Misère au Borinage (1933) by Storck and Ivens, I took the decision to return to the Borinage, the place of my childhood, in order to write the social destitution that still exists today. The reason? To write a letter, via a film, to Henri Storck about the most abhorrent consequences of economic horror that exist in the poorest quarters, and how the people and the area have sunk into total depredation. Each and every day, the letter focuses on another tragic discovery, which leaves us with a more and more bleak, and sometimes unbearable feeling. Juxtaposition of images from 1933 and the reality of the situation becomes more and more pertinent. (...) Deprived of any education and direction, generation follows generation, and as time goes on, they even loose their ability to protest. They are scorned. They are the people that others ridicule. They are non-persons. They suffer in silence.They suffer in a world of violence that is aimed at them. Patric Jean

Belgium - 1999 - 54 mn - Betacam SP - Colour

Réalisation Patric Jean Scénario Patric Jean Image Guy Maezelle Son Jean-Jacques Quinet Montage Nathalie Delvoye

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