Paris et le désert français


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  • Andre titler: Paris and the French desert
  • Genre: Documentary film
  • År: 1957
  • Varighed: 00:27:00
  • Beskrivelse: The desertification of the French countryside takes tragic proportions, for instance in Goudron. The film presents the solutions to avoid the concentric madness of cities: modernization of agriculture, adaptation of handicrafts, establishment of industries in the provinces.
    Film directed by Roger Leenhardt and Sydney Jezequel in 1957, based on the book by Jean-François Gravier. General information document proposing the solutions of the time to avoid the desertification of the countryside and the concentrationist madness of the cities. From 1957, the desertification of the countryside took on tragic proportions. The example is given for the village of Gourdon in the Quercy. Which evolutions should be proposed to avoid the rural exodus and the anarchic development, which is beginning, of mushroom cities, built in the open field without urbanism and without soul? The commentary proposes the solutions of the time: modernization of agriculture, adaptation of the craft industry, establishment of industries in the provinces. Gas pipelines in the southwest, dams in Haute-Savoie, polders in Brittany seemed at the time to be able to solve the imbalance between town and country. (Text machine-translated)
  • Nøgleord: leisure / work / town / village / slum / sports ground / farmer / elderly persons / family / crowd / agriculture / manual work / mountainside / countryside / abandoned building / barracks / factory / Paris / Goussainville / Le Mont-Saint-Michel / Gourdon / Cholet / France / VICTOR-E project
  • Udbyder: Ministère de la Reconstruction et de l'Urbanisme
  • Rettigheder: In Copyright / Ministère de la Reconstruction et de l'Urbanisme
  • Produktionsselskab: Les Films du Compas
  • Farve: Black & White
  • Director: Roger Leenhardt
    Sidney Jézéquel
  • Sound: With sound
  • Language: fr