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Simenon et les gens d'en face
Stalinist Ukraine, June 1933. Simenon produces a report entitled "Peuples qui ont faim", together with many photographs. A young guide, Sonia, is appointed by the Guepeou to guide him. The writer immediately clashes with her. She will later become the heroine of the novel "Les Gens d'en face". The film follows their tracks along with our guide, Olga, newspaper articles, photographs and novels. Between documentary and fiction, Olga leads us to examine the Simenon file in the KGB archives where the vivid ghosts of the old oppression re-appear...
Belgium / France - 2003 - 1 h - Betacam Digital • 4/3 - Colour
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