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La pyramide humaine / Pierre Braunberger présente ; un film de Jean Rouch ; directeur de production: Roger Fleytoux ; production Films de la Pléiade.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Interracial friendship--Côte d'Ivoire--Abidjan.
- Interracial friendship.
- Ethnographic films.
- Students.
- Racism.
- Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire)--Race relations.
- Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire).
- Racism--Côte d'Ivoire--Abidjan.
- Students--Côte d'Ivoire--Abidjan--Attitudes.
- Ethnographic films--Production and direction--Côte d'Ivoire--Abidjan.
- Rouch, Jean.
- Côte d'Ivoire.
- Côte d'Ivoire--Abidjan.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (93 min.) : digital, sound, color and black and white
- Other Title:
- English title: Human pyramid
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In French with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Filmed in 1958 and 1959 with a mixed group of final year students at the Lycée français in Abidjan (the capital of the Ivory Coast), this loosely improvised narrative on the subject of race relations is framed by Rouch's voice on the soundtrack justifying the film because of the real friendships formed among the participants, both black and white, and the fact that for them racism no longer made any sense.
- Credits:
- Images, Louis Mialle [and 4 others] ; montage, Marie Josèphe Yoyotte [and 3 others] ; regie: Pascal Pazart, Suzy Vianes.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced: Les Films de la Pléiade, ©1961; restored in 2017.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed February 25, 2019).
- "Un film restauré et numérisé par Les Films de la Pléiade."
- Publisher Number:
- if-pyra Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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