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Agathe Bluysen (writer)
Peter Watkins (writer)
Release Date:
7 November 2007 (France) more
Awards:
1 win more
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L.A. Film Critics Pick Brokeback Mountain
(From IMDb News. 11 December 2005)
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"La Commune (Paris, 1871)" is a brilliant nearly 6-hour long must-see docudrama. more (12 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Eliane Annie Adalto | ... | Laundress |
| Pierre Barbieux | ... | Child in Cour Popincourt |
| Bernard Bombeau | ... | Baker |
| Maylis Bouffartigue | ... | Marie-Louise Théron |
| Geneviève Capy | ... | Doctor's wife |
| Anne Carlier | ... | Laundress |
| Véronique Couzon | ... | Marie-Louise Beauger |
| Piotr Daskiewicz | ... | Polish Officer |
| Nicole Defer | ... | Owner of dressmaking workshop & laundry |
| Patrick Dell'Isola | ... | Emile Léonard Morterol |
| Caroline Esnard-Benoit | ... | Baker's wife |
| Roland Fontaine | ... | Child in Cour Popincourt |
| Przermyslaw Galkiewicz | ... | Polish Officer |
| Jean-Michel Gallois | ... | Concièrge |
| Joachim Gatti | ... | Joachim Rivière |
| Jean Giacinti | ... | Adolphe Thiers |
| Virginie Guibbaud | ... | Léontine Rombert |
| Armelle Hounkanin | ... | Françoise Boidard |
| Catherine Humbert | ... | Marguerite Lachaise, cantinière of 66th Battalion, National Guard |
| Steve Kreisler | ... | Wickham Hoffmann (US Attaché) |
| Lucette Labreuil | ... | Owner of Café Watrin |
| Michel Labreuil | ... | Proprietor of Café Watrin |
| Rémy Le Champion | ... | Policeman |
| Jean Legal | ... | Doctor |
| Elisabeth Lemaitre | ... | Pawnbroker |
| Gaston Lepage | ... | Child in Cour Popincourt |
| Manon Lepage | ... | Child in Cour Popincourt |
| Micheline Letourneur | ... | Laundress |
| Béatrice Mandelbrot | ... | Laundress |
| Elsy Mandelbrot | ... | Convent school pupil |
| Leila Mandelbrot | ... | Child in Cour Popincourt |
| Tilly Mandelbrot | ... | Child in Cour Popincourt |
| Samy Nogaro | ... | Émile Théron |
| Laurent Parisi | ... | Policeman |
| Aurélia Petit | ... | Blanche Capellier |
| Flora Pierre | ... | Laundress (as M B 'Flora' Pierre) |
| Marek Przbyla | ... | Polish Officer |
| Prune Sauvageot | ... | Child in Cour Popincourt |
| Pascal Schiltz | ... | Sailor |
| Dirk Sikorski | ... | Anatole Cordier, 66ème |
| Zinedine Vergnaud | ... | Child in Cour Popincourt |
| Gérard Watkins | ... | Gérard Bourlet |
| Philippe Welsh | ... | Le père |
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345 min | Germany:300 min | 220 min (theatrical version)
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Featured in The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins (2001) more
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The fact that the movie includes the depiction of media technology inexistent during the period of the Commune marginalizes it's value as a docudrama hoping to recreate accurately these events of 19nth century French historymore
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Peter Watkins' nearly 6-hour long docudrama, "La Commune (Paris, 1871), is a surprisingly passionate and fast-moving lesson in history. It is also a brilliant demonstration of how history is shaped, and re-shaped, by the tellers of the tale.
Using the "You Are There" approach of earlier radio and TV days, Watkins has a male and female news team from "Commune TV" wandering through the poorest district of Paris inviting people to express their grievances against the state to the camera.
While the people bitterly suffer because of the government's inept defeat at the hands of the Germans during the Franco-Prussian War, their anger inspires solidarity for them throughout Paris, and although they briefly rise up and seize power, they are brutally put down in the end.
Ironically, during the course of their uprising, a TV monitor in the background features happy-talk "Versailles TV" news anchors, who continually vilify the Communards and rationalize the government's brutal acts of suppression.
"La Commune (Paris, 1871)" is a must-see for students of history, and a must-see for students of the media.