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Les raquetteurs
195814 min 37 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Gilles GroulxMichel Brault
With great authenticity and spontaneity, Les raquetteurs records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema. In French with English subtitles.
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Subject categories
- Sports and Leisure - Winter Sports > CompetitionsWinter ActivitiesWinter Games
- Social Issues > Quebec Society
- Physical Education > Outdoor Education
Credits
- director
- Gilles Groulx
- Michel Brault
- cinematography
- Gilles Groulx
- Michel Brault
- editing
- Gilles Groulx
- Michel Brault
- sound
- Marcel Carrière
- sound editing
- Stuart Baker
- music editing
- Norman Bigras
- mixing
- Ron Alexander
- production assistant
- Marcel Martin
- production manager
- Louis Portugais
Awards
- Silver Medal of the Italian RadioFestival dei Popoli / International Film Festival on Social Documentary