Huntsville, la colonie pénitentière
Huntsville, the Penitenciary Colony
Huntsville, Texas. Its eight prisons, overpopulated Death Row, and record number of executions in the Western world. This small city (pop. 35,000) thrives on its penal activities, which is its main industry, employing 8,000 people. Texas prides itself on being the most repressive state in the US: 35 executions in 1999, 43 in 2000. The ex-governor of Texas, George Bush Jr, never granted a pardon but once, for the relative benefit of a multi-recidivist, already sentenced to death for another crime. The film shows daily life of ordinary people, closely or distantly concerned with the prison industry. We learn how the penitentiary environment, an infernal machine that turns out more and more prisoners, has become commonplace to most of the inhabitants, and how they easily get used to the most violent of repressive systems. Whether they are those who organize them or suffer from them.
France - 2001 - 1 h 15 mn - DV Cam - Colour
Réalisation
Olivier Lamour, Frédéric Biamonti
Auteur
Olivier Lamour, Frédéric Biamonti
Image
Jean-François Boucher
Son
Jean-Luc Verdier
Montage
Barbara Doussot
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Production
Antoine Martin Production,
301 route de Darnétal,
76000 Rouen, France
Tél : +33 (0)2 3208 4831
Fax : +33 (0)2 3208 4831
E-mail : postmaster@antoinemartinprod.com
Co-Production
France 2
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Ventes
Antoine Martin Production,
301 route de Darnétal,
76000 Rouen, France
Tél : +33 (0)2 3208 4831
Fax : +33 (0)2 3208 4831
E-mail : postmaster@antoinemartinprod.com |
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