Le Mans 1955 (2018)

Directed by

Quentin Baillieux

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

15 min

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An animated short depicts the 1955 Le Mans car race disaster. It shows the event from the perspectives of drivers and spectators in the crowd.

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What happens

Le Mans 1955 is a 2018 French adult animated short film directed by Quentin Baillieux and produced by Nicolas de Rosanbo & Carole Lambert inspired by the 1955 Le Mans disaster. The short has been presented in a number of festivals including in the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 2019, and won awards such as the St. Louis International Film Festival for Best Animated Short Film award, qualifying it for the Oscars, but it did not receive a nomination. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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