Les Aventuriers des mers du Sud
Having left for the South Seas in the late 1880s, the novelist and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson would never return to his native Scotland. He settled on the island of Vailima in the Samoan archipelago, where he thought he had found peace, and the ideal place where to pursue his work. Instead, he was to find war, corruption, and the destruction of the indigenous population engineered by the “white man with no mercy”. Indignant, he went to the defense of the Samoans. There followed four years of relentless struggles. This fight, despite its major importance in Stevenson’s work, has been until now ignored. As too has been the role of his wife, Fanny, lover and mother-figure, secretary, rebel, adventurer ready for all combat, and organizer of their “Noah’s Ark” at Vailima. Without her, none of this adventure would have been possible: these four years of battle were also testament to a great love story.
France - 2004 - 2 x 90 mn - 16 mm - Colour
Director
Daniel Vigne
Script
Daniel Vigne, Michel Le Bris
Camera
Flore Thulliez
Sound
Raul Amargo
Editing
Thierry Simonet
Cast
Stéphane Freiss, Jane Birkin, Géraldine Chaplin, Karine Belly, Stéphane Medez, John Potini
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Production
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Co-Production
ARTE France
with the participation of
France 2, TV5 Monde
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