Mehdi Lallaoui's documentary begins where it all ended, in New Caledonia, with images of the ruins of the penal colony where many Communard insurgents, including Louise Michel, were deported. The filmmaker thus tracks down all the ...See moreMehdi Lallaoui's documentary begins where it all ended, in New Caledonia, with images of the ruins of the penal colony where many Communard insurgents, including Louise Michel, were deported. The filmmaker thus tracks down all the still-visible traces of the insurrectionary movement, in the South Pacific but especially in Paris, following Alain Dalotel, author of numerous works on the Commune (who died on May 29, 2020, in Bagnolet). He also seeks out all the archives, allowing us to understand, with the means of communication and information of the time (and with a voiceover by Bernard Langlois), what contemporaries experienced between March and May 1871: their hopes, their dreams, their fears, their anger. Written by
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