Movie Details
Original Language:French
Production Companies:ONF | NFB
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The Snowshoers
Audience Score
StarringMaurice Richard
15 minDocumentary
Plot
This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, "Les raquetteurs" is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.
