La Frontière

Film

La Frontière

France
Director
Jean Cayrol
Year
1961

Dedicated “to the exiled, proscribed, expelled, banned,” this montage of documentary images codirected and written by Jean Cayrol—a former deportee who wrote the commentary for Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog —makes the Spanish Civil War a synecdoche for all forms of brutal exclusion.

Top cast

Directed by

Jean Cayrol, Claude Durand

Written by

Claude Durand, Jean Cayrol