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Joseph l'insoumis (2011)

Directed by Caroline Glorion

Overview

1956, a handful of families survive in makeshift shelters in appalling poverty and daily violence. A man, Joseph Wresinski , a priest, himself born into great poverty, decides to settle among those he calls “his people”. Among these families, that of Jacques. His life will be transformed by his meeting with Father Joseph. His own, but also that of the people who will join the fight of this revolutionary priest. A fight against assistance and charity which, he says, “push the poor into indignity

Length 90 minutes

Actors

Jacques Weber | Anouk Grinberg | Nicolas Louis | Salomé Stévenin | Laurence Côte | Patrick Descamps | Isabelle De Hertogh | Anne Coesens | Frédéric Guerbert | Jeanne Lepers | Philippe Caulier