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Of Great Events and Ordinary People (1980)
Directed by Raúl Ruiz
Documentary · 1h 05m
In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’ expectation, the Left lost. Ruiz seized on this anti-climax to make a documentary about nothing except itself – a film whose central subject is forever lost in digression and ‘dispersal’, harking back to his Chilean experiments of the ‘60s. Its political content is deliberately left negligible: it’s hard to tell at the end who did actually win the election, let alone why.
Crew
- Director
- Raúl Ruiz
- Writer
- François Ede, Raúl Ruiz
- Director of Photography
- Jacques Bouquin, Dominique Forgue, Alain Salomon
- Editor
- Valeria Sarmiento
Details
- Original title
- De grands événements et des gens ordinaires
- Release date
- 1980-02-24
- Runtime
- 1h 05m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- INA