Vincennes, l'université perdue

Jun 1, 2016

1h 36m

★ 8.5

Overview

Recounts the epic of Vincennes Experimental University Center, from its creation after the events of May 68 until its demolition in the summer of 1980. To talk about Vincennes is to relive unique ten years of intense intellectual and political extravaganza, educational and artistic inventiveness, utopias, hopes, and betrayals that marked the history in a unique place, the forest with the eponymous name.

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

Production Companies

Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo

Vincennes, l'université perdue Trailers

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Cast

Self

Virginie Linhart

Self

Hélène Cixous

Self

François Samuelson

Self

Claude Frioux

Self (archive footage)

Jacques Lacan

Self

Noam Chomsky

Self (archive footage)

Michel Foucault

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