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La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2003)
Directed by Peter Watkins
Overview
We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the Commune, especially the Popincourt neighborhood in the XIth arrondissement. They voice their thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms.
Length 345 minutes
Actors
Eliane Annie Adalto | Pierre Barbieux | Bernard Bombeau | Maylis Bouffartigue | Geneviève Capy | Anne Carlier | Véronique Couzon | Piotr Daskiewicz | Nicole Defer | Patrick Dell'Isola | Jürgen Ellinghaus | Caroline Esnard-Benoit | Gérard Watkins | Aurélia Petit | Roland Fontaine | Przermyslaw Galkiewicz | Jean-Michel Gallois | Joachim Gatti | Jean Giacinti | Virginie Guibbaud | Armelle Hounkanin | Catherine Humbert | Steve Kreisler | Lucette Labreuil | Michel Labreuil | Rémy Le Champion | Jean Legal | Elisabeth Lemaitre | Gaston Lepage | Manon Lepage | Micheline Letourneur | Béatrice Mandelbrot | Elsy Mandelbrot | Leila Mandelbrot | Tilly Mandelbrot | Samy Nogaro | Laurent Parisi | Flora Pierre | Marek Przbyla | Prune Sauvageot | Pascal Schiltz | Dirk Sikorski | Zinedine Vergnaud | Philippe Welsh | François Damiens