LES RAQUETTEURS

Canadá, 1958
Director: Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx

Dirixido por Michel Brault e Gilles Groulx
Fotografía: Michel Brault e Gilles Groulx
Montaxe: Michel Brault e Gilles Groulx
Son: Marcel Carrière

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB’s newly formed French Unit. Today, Les Raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.