Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 30 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- Canada
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
The story of one shepherd's single-handed quest to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the French Alps throughout the first half of the 20th century.
- shepherd
- france
- world war i
- village
- world war ii
- forest
- widower
- deforestation
- reforestation
- 1940s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Directed
- Frédéric Back
- Written
- Jean Giono
Production
- Rating
- 8.0 / 10 · 182 ratings
- Studio
- Société Radio-Canada, CBC, ONF | NFB
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
