Raymond Depardon, Sign and Witness of his Times

Urgences (Urgencies)
Raymond Depardon
France, 1987
35mm | 104min. | Colour | VOSE

Production:
Palmeraie et désert

Screenplay:
Raymond Depardon
Photography:
Raymond Depardon
Editor:
Roger Ikhlef, Jacqueline Guillet-Leroux
Sound:
Claudine Nougaret
 
Sinopsis

A look at the psychiatric accident and emergency service at Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris. A stream of disconsolate people: an exhauste bus driver, a housewife who can't take any more, a young girl who tried to commit suicide, a pensioner he says he has a 'moral disease'. Raymond Depardon portrays the patient-psychiatrist relationship in unusual fashion with the punch, rhythm and density of the truth.

 
Festivals

Grand Prix - Festival Internazionale del Film Documentario de Firenze 1988