La tumultueuse vie d'un déflaté
2009 film by Camille Plagnet
La tumultueuse vie d’un déflaté is a 2009 documentary film.
Synopsis
The film portrays the turbulent life of the "Great Z", an engine driver on the Abidjan - Ouagadougou line for twenty years. He was laid off in 1995 by the National Railways of Burkina Faso following the privatization imposed by the World Bank. A seasoned reveler and a hedonist to the bone, he suddenly finds himself with no reason to live. He has lost everything and lives a gloomy life while waiting for his retirement pension. Tormented and employing a brutal and violent vocabulary, he emphatically describes his problems, his hatreds and his hopes.
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The film was the closing film for the 2010 Festival International du Film des Droits de l’Homme in Paris.
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