With unerring curiousity and sensitivity, director Philbert portrays the difficulties and joys of being deaf, offering vivid portraits of people of all ages coping with and surmounting their challenges.
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Jean-Claude Poulain | ... | Professeur de langue des signes |
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Abou Bakar | ... | Enfant (as Aboubaker) |
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Anh Tuan | ... | Enfant |
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Betty | ... | Enfant |
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Florent | ... | Enfant |
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Frédéric | ... | Enfant |
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Jalal | ... | Enfant |
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Karen | ... | Enfant |
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Tomo | ... | Enfant |
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Odile Ghermani | ... | Professeur |
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Babette Deboissy | ... | Éducatrice |
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Denis Azra | ... | Directeur de l'école |
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Levent Beskardes | ||
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With unerring curiousity and sensitivity, director Philbert portrays the difficulties and joys of being deaf, offering vivid portraits of people of all ages coping with and surmounting their challenges.
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wedding | teacher | sign language | physically challenged | minister |Genres:
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14 September 1994 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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impressive collection of view points as expressed by deaf people, put together into a crescendo peaking into a statement that when deaf people of different countries and different sign languages are suddenly confronting each other, it takes about two or three days to communicate fluently, but then look at the speakers of different languages, with their dictionaries, translating computers and phonetic machines, and they still can't communicate.