LUCKY HOURS

LES HEURES HEUREUSES

By Martine DEYRES

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Documentary - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Visions du Réel 2019
Compétition Nationale
Rotterdam IFF 2020
Deep Focus
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online) 2021
Doc Market
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • BELGIUM, SWITZERLAND, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 77 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Martine DEYRES
    • Producer(s)
    • Alexandre CORNU (LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR DE SOIE), Bande À Part Films , Lux Fugit Film
    • Synopsis
    • Between 1939 and 1945, more than 40,000 internees died of hunger in French psychiatric hospitals. Only one place escapes this hecatomb, the asylum of a village isolated from the center of France:
      Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole. What happened here and nowhere else that was an exception?
      The answer may be in those few hours of amateur films that I accidentally found and which,
      arising from the past, come to testify thousand and one daily inventions of a place of resistance.