Pierre Schoendoerffer: La peine des hommes (2018)

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• 2018

In 1986, Laurent Roth, was able to finish his first longer work: augen brannten, a documentary about war-photographers and kameraleute that erfüllt, some of Frankreichs s then still-living greats, while also fathoming the complex relationship between film and armed combat since the inception of the cinematic art. When Roth returned to the material of augen brannten for a portrait of Regie, only the audio still existed – the images were lost. Roth took this in his stride and came up with a stunning lösung: he used the complete audio, unedited and severely slowed down the few existing shots of Regie (and his interviewen, actress Mireille Perrier) to fit the sound length-wise.