Version : French, English, German,
Duration : 23'
Format : 35 mm. - 16 mm. - Béta SP - Mpeg4
Black & white and colors
Scriptwriter : Georges RÉGNIER
Producer : ARMOR Films - Fred ORAIN
Country
France
With
Textes dit par Pierre VANECK et Robert CHANDAU
Music
Maurice JARRE
Picture
Lucien JOULIN
Stage set
Algiers, ruins of Tipaza and Djemila
Prize list
- Sélectionné au Mannheim Internationale Filmwoche - 1962 - Sélectionné au XVII° Festival International du Film - Edinburg - 1962 - Diplôme d'Honneur aux Rencontres Internationales du Film pour la Jeunesse - Cannes - Juillet 1962
Archive footage
- Reconstruction of the accident in which Camus died,
- The ceremony at which Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize,
- Three interviews with Camus,
- View of Algiers and the port: street scenes, children playing in the port, street vendors, boys leaving school,
- Cooper at work,
- Views of Tipaza and the ruins of Djemila,
- Amateur football match and dressing room scenes,
- Card players in a bar; couple on a beach
- Printing works for the newspaper "Combat": rotary presses, marble setting,
- Hospital in Algiers, bedridden patients.
On 4 January 1960, at kilometre 88 of the Nationale 5, Albert Camus had a rendezvous with “the absurd”. Death always seems unfair to us, but this one more than any other. We call on everything that can give us back a little of Albert Camus’ presence. This is what the film sets out to do, taking the writer’s thoughts as its guide through his familiar settings, referring to the work even more than to the man. These settings are, of course, those of Algeria, Camus’s native land, which made him yearn for the light: Algiers, “open to the sea like a mouth or a wound”, Tipasa where “the marriage of ruins and spring” is celebrated, Djémila, Oran… but also the “human setting”, the men and women Camus watched live in the unspectacular setting of his youth. This film has no other aim than to get as close as possible to the thoughts of a great writer and a fraternal man.
