Le Cri
July 1987: Robert Panaud witnesses the closure of the blast furnace at the foot of which he spent his whole working life. This funeral service puts an end to 120 years of History. After the ceremony, presided over by his son, a young engineer, he reminisces and tells him about his life as a steelworker. It starts in 1945 when, at the age of 15, full of hope and confident in his future, he first goes through the factory gates. It peters out forty years later with his taking early retirement after a somewhat checkered working life. We discover that, over the course of time, the worker’s words are a cry. The cry to make oneself heard over the racket of the workshop. The cry of rebellion. The cry of the workers’ revolts from 1830 to the present. The cry of suffering. The cry of death. The cry his grandfather made when he fell into a tank of molten metal. With sadness tinged with anger, Robert looks at the steel lingot taken out of the tank and given to the family in memory of the deceased. That is when, in front of the fireplace where the piece of metal is in pride of place near a bouquet of artificial flowers, he realizes that his life only makes any sense to him if it is linked to the struggles made by those who went before him.
France - 2005 - 2 x 1h30 - 16 mm - Colour
Director
Hervé Baslé
Script
Hervé Baslé
Camera
Svetlana Kouleva
Sound
Jean-Louis Richet
Sets
Claude Lenoir
Editing
Laurence Guzzo
Music
Pierre Baslé, Mark Doyle
Cast
Francis Renaud, Marina Golovine, Catherine Jacob, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Rufus, Yann Collette, Dominique Blanc, Jacques Bonnaffé
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Associate production
Barjac Production,
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75009 Paris, France
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Production
Azzalé Films Production,
11-17, rue de la Chine,
75020 Paris, France
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with the participation of
France 2, TV5 Monde, Radiotélévision belge de la communauté française
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Sales
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