Juste avant l’orage
Don Kent
Award for Best Essay, FIFA 2016
The years 1900 – 1914 saw a veritable explosion in all artistic disciplines. This film depicts a vanishing world and the advent of a new one — our own. The connecting thread is an imaginary train journey through the great European capitals, from Vienna and Paris to Saint Petersburg, probing the paradoxes, carefree existence, stirrings of modernity and contradictions of the era, when storm clouds were already gathering… and as artists were changing our perception of the world.
The years 1900 – 1914 saw a veritable explosion in all artistic disciplines. This film depicts a vanishing world and the advent of a new one — our own. The connecting thread is an imaginary train journey through the great European capitals, from Vienna and Paris to Saint Petersburg, probing the paradoxes, carefree existence, stirrings of modernity and contradictions of the era, when storm clouds were already gathering… and as artists were changing our perception of the world.
| Director | Don Kent |
| Script | Leslie Grunberg, Don Kent |
| Production | Leslie Grunberg, Penelope Morgane |
| Participation | Hélène Carrère D'Encausse, Volker Schlöndorff, Jean Rouaud, István Szabó, Heinz Wismann, Patrick Ourelnik, Jean Echenoz, Claudio Magris, Laurence Kahn, Dubravka Stojanovic, Nicolas Offenstat, Jacques Le Rider |
| Editing | Arnaud Petitet |
| Artist | Volker Schlöndorff, Hélène Carrère D'Encausse, Jean Rouaud, István Szabó, Heinz Wismann, Patrick Ourelnik, Jean Echenoz, Claudio Magris, Laurence Kahn, Dubravka Stojanovic, Nicolas Offenstat, Jacques Le Rider |
| Narration | Agnès Sourdillon, Féodor Atkine, Hans Peter Cloos, Don Kent |
| Sound | Antoine Rodet |
| Cinematography | Don Kent |
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