Movies: Carole Roussopoulos

In "Messe pour un corps", Michel Journiac organizes a real religious service and makes the participants receive communion with a black pudding made from his own blood....

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In this two conferences about Vietnam, people denounce the violence of the american government. Veterans speak about their experience, the control of the media over the representation of the war and establish a link between what happens in Vietnam an...

A few hours after Sanchez Bravo's execution, his sister recounts the condemned man's last night. Otaegi's mother talks about her son's life and the last conversation she had with him. Txiki's mother speaks of the solidarity of her village, where she ...

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Vagrants, tramps, down and outs, homeless people... There are many people living a wandering life, on the fringe of care services. The CHAPSA (Shelter and Care Centre for the Homeless) at Nanterre hospital is the first state run centre, within a hosp...

Gabrielle Nanchen, the first Swiss woman socialist deputy to the National Council is interviewed on the very day that women obtain the right to vote in Switzerland and in her canton, Valais. The film also collects the reactions of the Valais peasants...

This documentary is about the solidarity march supporting the workers on strike at Lip (September 1973). Strikers, including Charles Piaget, talk about the action committee and its relationship to the union structure. Images of the march alternate wi...

A couple working at Lip: she is a semi-skilled worker, he is head of production line. They discuss the problems regarding the women's situation, their working conditions, and internal democracy within the union. Charles Piaget gives his point of view...

Shellfish harvesters from the Marennes-Oléron basin (Charente-Maritime) testify to their living and working conditions: difficulties in the profession, distribution of tasks between men and women, advantages of co-detention, creation of an associatio...

The film presents a series of portraits of women working in traditional male jobs in the transport industry: the SNCF, the RATP, Air France and Air Inter, and at Paris airports. Each woman talks about her professional choice, her training, what respo...

Monique (an advertising assistant) and Christine (a semi-skilled worker) talk about how difficult it is for a woman working in a struggling factory (Lip), about issues of internal democracy within the trade union and the end of work in the current si...

August 1973, after the police move into the Lip factory in Besançon, one of the female workers, Monique Piton, talks about the four months of struggle, the place of women and the lessons she has learnt. She is also critical of the role of television....