Lest We Forget
A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.
Crew and Cast
René AllioDirectorDenis AmarDirector
Emmanuelle BéartSelf (segment "Pour Nguyen Chi Thien · Vietnam")
Youssou N'DourSelf (segment "Pour Augustine Eke · Nigeria")
Jane BirkinNarrator (segment "Pour Maria Nonna Santa Clara · Philippines")
Sami FreySelf (segment "Pour Alirio de Jesús Pedraza Becerra · Colombie")
Henri Cartier-BressonNarrator (segment "Pour Mamadou Bâ · Mauritanie")Gérald ThomassinSelf (segment "Pour Anstraum Aman Villagrán Morales · Guatemala")
Charlotte GainsbourgSelf (segment "Pour Crisanto Mederos · Venezuela")
Carole BouquetSelf (segment "Pour Andreas Christodoulou · Grèce")
Adolf HitlerSelf (segment "Pour Andreas Christodoulou · Grèce")
Edgar MorinNarrator (segment "Pour 'Ali Muhammad al-Qajiji · Lybie")
Philippe NoiretSelf (segment "Pour Joaquim Elema Boringue · Guinée Équatoriale")
Isabelle HuppertSelf (segment "Pour Archana Guha · Inde")
Haroun TazieffSelf (segment "Pour Mulugetta Mosissa · Éthiopie")Mulugetta MosissaSelf (segment "Pour Mulugetta Mosissa · Éthiopie")
Anny DupereySelf (segment "Pour Ghassan Najjar · Syrie")
Alexandre MinkowskiSelf (segment "Pour Abraham Serfaty · Maroc")
André RousseletSelf (segment "Pour Thomas Wainggai · Indonésie")
Bruno MasureSelf (segment "Pour Stanza Bopape · Afrique du Sud")
Paul AmarSelf (segment "Pour Wang Xizhe · Chine")
Abbé PierreSelf (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean · USA")
Alex DescasDalton Prejean (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean · USA")
Guy BedosSelf (segment "Pour Alexandre Goldovitch · URSS")
Alain SouchonSelf (segment "Pour Ushari Ahmed Mahmoud · Soudan")Bernard StasiSelf (segment "Pour Vythialingam Skandarajah · Royaume Uni")
Claude CheyssonSelf (segment "Pour Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin · Israël")
Abd al-Ra'uf GhabinSelf (segment "Pour Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin · Israël")
Hubert ReevesSelf (segment "Pour Fidel Intusca Fernandez · Pérou")
François JacobSelf (segment "Pour Esteban González González · Cuba")
Fidel CastroSelf (segment "Pour Esteban González González · Cuba")
Catherine DeneuveSelf (segment "Pour Febe Elisabeth Velásquez · El Salvador")
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Info
- Original title
- Contre l’oubli
- Status
- Released
- Released
- 11 December 1991
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- TMDB score
- 7.0 / 10 (3 votes)
Production
- Director
- René Allio, Denis Amar, Patrice Chéreau
- Writers
- Michel Grisolia, Edgar Morin
- Studios
- Amnesty International, Les Films du Paradoxe
- Countries
- France
Languages
- Original
- French
- Spoken
- Arabic, Spanish, French, English