Of Great Events and Ordinary People

Of Great Events and Ordinary People (1980)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1980-02-24
  • User Rating: 7/10 from 5 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 5min
  • Language: Français
  • Production Company: INA
  • Production Country: France
  • Director: Raúl Ruiz
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Summary

In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’ expectation, the Left lost. Ruiz seized on this anti-climax to make a documentary about nothing except itself – a film whose central subject is forever lost in digression and ‘dispersal’, harking back to his Chilean experiments of the ‘60s. Its political content is deliberately left negligible: it’s hard to tell at the end who did actually win the election, let alone why.

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Directing Raúl Ruiz Director
Writing François Ede Writer
Writing Raúl Ruiz Writer
Editing Valeria Sarmiento Editor
Camera Jacques Bouquin Director of Photography
Camera Dominique Forgue Director of Photography
Camera Alain Salomon Director of Photography

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