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L'ordre (1973)

L'ordre poster
Original title
L'Ordre
Directed by
Jean-Daniel Pollet
Genre
documentary film
Country
France
Runtime
43 min
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary is set on the Greek island of Spinalonga, where the government once confined people with leprosy. It uses the testimonies of former residents and research by an ethnographer to show what life was like in the colony.

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What happens

L'Ordre è un documentario del 1973 diretto da Jean-Daniel Pollet, girato interamente sull'isola greca di Spinalonga, dove a partire dal 1903 il governo recluse i lebbrosi del paese, considerati soggetti pericolosi e nocivi per la popolazione "sana". Il film si basa sulle testimonianze dai lebbrosi del luogo e sul lavoro dell'etnografo svizzero Maurice Born, che studiò a lungo la vicenda della colonia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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