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33rd MostraThe Rebel, Louise Michel
2009
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Original Title: Louise Michel
Country of origin: France
Genre: Fiction
Year: 2009
Director: Sólveig Anspach
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Format: color, digital
Duration: 90
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Synopsis
Louise Michel is a French revolted woman from Paris Commune. But while everybody knows her name, no one knows who she is. Convicted for having fought the troops of Bismark, after a time in Rochefort jail, Louise is sent like thousands of revolutionary men to faraway Noumea, in New Caledonia, while in Paris, young George Clémenceau is trying to get amnesty for all the Communards. Teacher, friend of famous Victor Hugo, Louise will happen to be in Noumea an exemplary resistant admired by all men. Not only does she cheer up all her prison mates but also she makes friends with the island inhabitants called the Kanaks. She teaches them French, learn about their customs, their identity and stands on their side while they rise up against colonial authority. Her anarchy was not an ideology but a moral behaviour. She will end her detention by teaching in a school gathering in the same classroom Kanak children with others. -
Credits
Direction: Sólveig Anspach
Screenplay: Solveig Anspach, Jean-Luc Gaget
Cinematography: Jacques Kirsner
Cast: Sylvie Testud, Nathalie Boutefeu, Coralie André
Producer: Jacques Kirsner
Production: France 2, Jem Productions
World Sales: Wide Management
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Director
Sólveig Anspach
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