8 years 7 months ago - 8 years 6 months ago #279
by Nikita
I've catch this one this afternoon at the public library ...
"End of August 1944, Jean Grémillon travels to Normandy to find his family, but also to testify by images of his native country. The following spring, he completed the first shooting by a second trip. In precarious conditions, he filmed several survivors of the civilian population and the ruins caused by the fighting. Finally, it uses news archives, writes a music, records a comment which he is the author. He then reports the effects of the Allied landing and the Battle of Normandy, in the hope that the French public will discover the suffering of this most devastated region. Completed in 1946, Le 6 juin à l’aube is considered too long and inappropriate by distributors: they said, "No one cares about war anymore". And nobody is quick to defend a film whose point of view says no winner in the war ... He finally gets a discrete output cut by 12 minutes, the only known version until present days and until the restoration of the full version.
This is this original full version that is proposed here."
Le 6 Juin à l'aube (June 6 at dawn)
Jean Grémillon
Full version 56 minutes movie
Includes booklet with pictures and complete movie text plus Les désastres de la guerre (the disasters of war), text by François Albera.
French/English version
Edition restored by Archives Françaises du Film on collaboration with CNC.
Last edit: 8 years 6 months ago by Nikita. Reason: Spell check
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