Chronicle of a summer

Duration: 90

Year Published: 1961

Creator: Corinth Films

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: A cinema verite study of the individual lives of Parisiennes. Anthropologist-filmmaker Rouch calls the film an ethnography of his own tribe. Filmed in the summer of 1960 during the Algerian War, the film explores the individual's sense of meaningfulness in life's activities.

Complete Record: A cinema verite study of the individual lives of Parisiennes. Anthropologist-filmmaker Rouch calls the film an ethnography of his own tribe. Filmed in the summer of 1960 during the Algerian War, the film explores the individual's sense of meaningfulness in life's activities.