Of Great Events and Ordinary People

Synopsis

In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’ expectation, the Left lost. Ruiz seized on this anti-climax to make a documentary about nothing except itself – a film whose central subject is forever lost in digression and ‘dispersal’, harking back to his Chilean experiments of the ‘60s. Its political content is deliberately left negligible: it’s hard to tell at the end who did actually win the election, let alone why.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	Raúl Ruiz François Ede
Directing	Director	Raúl Ruiz
Editing	Editor	Valeria Sarmiento
Camera	Director of Photography	Jacques Bouquin Dominique Forgue Alain Salomon
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