2014
208 minutes
Why do people rise up?
Mao spoke of a "spark that can set the whole plain on fire", without really knowing how to set the spark off; Lenin was convinced that he would never see a revolution again in his lifetime... on the eve of the Russian revolution; a few weeks before May 68, a newspaper headlined "France is bored"; the Tunisians did not even imagine that it was possible to get rid of the dictator Ben Ali...
Let's add that if dissatisfaction with the rulers were enough to explain the uprisings, there would be revolutions every day.
The why is unanswerable.
And if the right question was: how?
By comparing five popular uprisings of modern times, which at first glance have nothing in common (May 1968 in France, Iran in 1979, Poland in 1980, China in 1989 and Tunisia in 2010), the series Uprising sheds new light on these storms that change the world.
The film is inspired by Michel Dobry's masterpiece "Sociology of Political Crises".
TEAM
written and directed by Cédric Tourbe
advisor : Michel Dobry
edited by Mathieu Blanc
image : Grégoire de Calignon / Octavio Salvatore Spirito Santo
sound : Mathieu Daude / Vincent Lefebvre
production : Yami2
broadcast by France Télévisions and Radio Télévision Suisse
written and directed by Cédric Tourbe
advisor : Michel Dobry
edited by Mathieu Blanc
image : Grégoire de Calignon / Octavio Salvatore Spirito Santo
sound : Mathieu Daude / Vincent Lefebvre
production : Yami2
broadcast by France Télévisions and Radio Télévision Suisse
DVD : france télévisions distribution
