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Lothringen!

BAFICI 2009
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Year:

1994
Original Title:

Lothringen!
País:

Francia 
Directores:

Danièle Huillet

Jean-Marie Straub
Color:

Color
Format:

35 mm
Duration:

20 min
Cast:
  • Emmanuelle Straub, Dominique Dostat, André Varynski
Production:
  • GUIÓN: Danielle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Emmanuelle Collinot, Christophe Pollock
  • MONTAJE: Daniele Huillet

Synopsis

A sign that names a region in dialect. An exclusion... or is it a remain of the Straub child?, which incites taking a stance and visit a city always in tension. Fragments from one of the many quartets by Haydn performed by Amadeus Qt. that frame the film. A fixed shot of an 1870 map over which we also hear gunshots. A broad, not contemporary gaze. A contemporary gaze made partial. 14 radiant moments recorded with a Golden Panaflex G II and a Nagra in June of ’94. Panning. Rumors that circulate in German near a “grandiose” monument, where the Mosela and Seille rivers meet. A voice that enunciates a few pages from a nationalist nouvelle. Medieval bridges that join the islands, a church with a gothic air. A woman in period clothing who hesitates before the debates a voice proposes to her. Destroying the French language in Lorraine? Opting for France? And what about the immigrants? An effigy, the road, and the railway that delimit the sunken city. In the forest, the region’s border. An obelisk that commemorates the French who died in the war. A line of dialogue with which Colette Baudoche finally rejects Frederic Asmus.

(The first country to sanction denaturalization laws is France, in 1915. It would be a few years until those in Nüremberg…)

H.H.