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Finis Terræ

192980 minFrance
Drama

Synopsis

On an isolated Breton island, four men harvest and burn seaweed for its valuable ash. A quarrel leaves Ambroise with a cut thumb, and his worsening infection is mistaken for laziness. With medical help separated from the camp by wind, currents and mistrust, a minor injury becomes an urgent struggle to reach the mainland community.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
81:38
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No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Jean Epstein · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsJean Epstein

Behind the scenes

Jean Epstein filmed on Bannec and Ushant with local nonprofessional performers. The work of seaweed gathering and the island landscape give the fiction a documentary texture, shaped further by his use of slow motion.

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