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Histoires de vies brisées: les 'double peine' de Lyon
FRANCE · 2001

Histoires de vies brisées: les 'double peine' de Lyon

Bertrand Tavernier
undocumented migrants immigration policy double penalty law hunger strike protest social activism
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Synopsis

In December 1997, Bertrand Tavernier supported a group of undocumented migrants in Lyon who went on hunger strike to protest against the double penalty. An agreement was reached, but the strike resumed a few months later, for lack of a real solution. The director then decides to take his camera and to give a long speech to these men and women that nobody wants to listen to.

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