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Vermeylen and all the indignant young people involved in the Club de l'écran, decided to bear witness to this dire poverty using their weapon, the camera. With the aid of a doctor and a lawyer, with very little funding, hiding from the police but supported by the whole population, the shoot took place in difficult and exciting conditions. The film is hard, magnificent. It has lost nothing of its force, its strong emotional impact of indignation and compassion. It has left to the working class the strongest images of its history and struggles: evictions; thin-faced and absent-looking children packed together in slum houses; the procession with the portrait of
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It is one of the most important references in the documentary genre. In 1932, a great strike paralysed the coalmines of
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In 1878, several fossils of iguanodons were found: this find was unique because complete skeletons were present. When this area was occupied by the
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