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The Other Side of the Tracks
FRANCE · 1997

The Other Side of the Tracks

Bertrand Tavernier
urban poverty racial discrimination social integration unemployment youth delinquency
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Synopsis

The first part of a documentary made by Bertrand and Nils Tavernier, following a letter judged provocative by the Minister of Integration at the time, who spent several months in the Grands Pêchers housing estate in Montreuil, giving voice to its inhabitants. The problems of unemployment, racism, integration and delinquency are addressed.

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