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A seventy-five-minute documentary featuring outtakes from "Chronicle of a Summer" (1961), along with new interviews with co-director Edgar Morin and some of the film’s participants.

Cast

Edgar Morin

as Self

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

as Self

Régis Debray

as Self

Jean-Pierre Sergent

as Self

Nadine Ballot

as Self

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