Released
The Snowshoers
January 1 1958 (almost 67 years ago)Rating
56
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11 reviews
- Directors: Michel Brault, Gilles Groulx
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 15 m
- Country: Canada
- Company: ONF | NFB
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.
