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ASBESTOS: CHRONICLE OF A FORETOLD DISASTER

AMIANTE: CHRONIQUE D’UN DÉSASTRE ANNONCÉ

By Marie-Anne MENGEOT, Nina TOUSSAINT

Documentary - Post-Production 2020

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- BELGIUM
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 52 mn
- Director(s)
- Marie-Anne MENGEOT, Nina TOUSSAINT
- Synopsis
- Thanks to the archives of eleven broadcasts made for RTBF from 1977 to 2003, a critical period in the use of asbestos in Belgium can be traced. All the risks were known to the industrialists, but the workers gradually discover them through illness and death. These were the years before the ban on asbestos, years cynically won over by the industry thanks to its propaganda, denial and lies, to maintain its profits.