original title:
Je suis Simone - La condition ouvrière
directed by:
cast:
Giovanna Giuliani, Claudia Landi, Natacha Eychenne, Emmanuel Rovillier, Kamal Boukarras, Ilaria Tramacere, Marco Teti, Antonio Sinisi, Yvonne Leclerc, Martin Barriè, Léon Mouquet, Eugénie Forestier
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
costume design:
Fiammetta Mandich
producer:
Fabrizio Ferraro, Antonio Sinisi
production:
country:
Italy/France
year:
2009
film run:
82'
format:
DV/35mm - colour
status:
Ready (23/08/2009)
festivals & awards:
This is the diary which the French philosopher Simone Weil kept when,
as a twenty-five-year-old, she took a one-year sabbatical from school
and her studies and worked in a Parisian factory from December 4,
1934 until August 1935, running the presses at the Alsthom electric
company. This experience formed the basis for her book La condition
ouvrière. The written chronicle of her days is visually accompanied by
a continuous flow of dark rooms and the urban landscape of Île Seguin
(suburbs south of Paris), paying particular attention to construction
sites and factories.
From "La condition ouvrière" by Simone Weil.