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Early in February 2001, the daughter of a friend of writer Jean-Yves Cendrey told him how she had been sexually abused. It had happened some 12 years earlier, when she was in nursery school in the city of Cormeilles. Cendrey quietly conducted an inquiry. One morning, he went to the home of the teacher in question and had him arrested. After several families filed complaints, Marcel Lechien, 47, was indicted for "rape and sexual assault on a minor." A year after the media tempest, Cormeilles was forgotten. But the wounds have not healed. 44 victims registered complaints. Everyone wonders about the reasons for this silence, which for 30 years, allowed the teacher to pursue his acts. At the café, at the market, people talk only of that: the silence. Those who "knew" and kept quiet. This film looks at those who fought to rebuild after the upheavals. The cameras are gone, the television news reports other cases of pedophilia, elsewhere in France. But you don't forget the suffering like you turn the page of a newspaper. In Cormeilles, the inhabitants, the victims fight to ward off the silence. The silence that allowed to tragedy to happen.

France - 2002 - 52 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Christian Passuello Script Christian Passuello, Ondine Millot Camera Christian Passuello Sound Laurent Malan Editing Caroline Le Van

Production Coup d'Œil, 72 rue Claude Bernard, 75005 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4337 1091 Fax : +33 (0)1 4331 0185 E-mail : coup-d-oeil@wanadoo.fr Co-Production ARTE G.E.I.E.

Sales Coup d'Œil, 72 rue Claude Bernard, 75005 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 4337 1091 Fax : +33 (0)1 4331 0185 E-mail : coup-d-oeil@wanadoo.fr