Clip
Summary
Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a "what if" question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise their own characters and situations.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 74GoodWatch 71
IMDb7.6
Audience score71%
Running time
1 h 30 min
A typical length for documentaries, −6 min on the typical 96
typical 9690Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 8 countries, rent or buy in 2 more
Released
1961
April 18, 1961
65 years ago
Genres
DocumentaryDramaLanguage
French
Original language
Made in
Côte d’Ivoire
France
Directing · 1
- Jean Rouch Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Production · 1
- Roger Fleytoux Production Manager
Camera · 4
- Serge Ricci Director of Photography
- Roger Morillière Director of Photography
- Mario Da Costa Director of Photography
- Louis Miaille Director of Photography
Editing · 4
- Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte Editor
- Francine Grubert Editor
- Liliane Korb Editor
- Geneviève Bastid Editor
Sound · 2
- Michel Fano Sound Recordist
- Guy Rophé Sound Recordist
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