The Other Side of the Tracks

Name: The Other Side of the Tracks
Released: 1997

Bertrand Tavernier

urban poverty racial discrimination social integration unemployment youth delinquency

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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.

Year1997

CountryFrance

DirectorBertrand Tavernier

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