Jacques Loiseleux

The making of Pialat's masterpiece.

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including workers' strikes and the events of Paris in May '68.

This film shows how two farmers' unions decide to start mass action to obtain a land lease from a landowner, thus enabling the tenant to obtain loans to set up farming facilities.