Bienvenue a Bataville
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Cast & Crew
Francois Caillat
Stephen Bauer
Jean-jacques Faure
Gilles Guigue
Myriam Rene
Jacques Besse
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In Lorraine, in a corner of the Moselle region, an economic and social experiment was instigated in 1932. Tomas Bata, the French shoe manufacturer, whose dream it was to make shoes for the whole of humanity, set up a modernist laboratory in the region. The location was called "Bataville", and next door to the Bata shoe factory was a model city and living community. A story about a utopian invention and its revealing history that plunges us into the heart of one of the terrifying and giddy adventures of paternalism, and stands as a fable of the perils of forced happiness. The factory closed in 2001.
Director
Francois Caillat
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Released in France November 19, 2008
color
dialogue French
Released in France November 19, 2008
