THE NEW DEAL: THE MAN WHO CHANGED AMERICA
un film de Julia Bracher - HistoireThis film, exclusively based on archive footage, tells the incredible story of the audacious reforms made by one man. which might be a great source of inspiration for the current time and open minds for our common future.
The New Deal was a series of programs, regulations, public work projects, and financial reforms in the US between 1933 and 1939.
It is like a novel: great victories, failures, ruthless opponents, and a hero, who doesn't quite look like one: Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The 1929 Great Depression hugely devastated the US and the American people. In 1932, 3 years after the Crash, the number of unemployed has skyrocketedfrom 1.5 million to 13 million – A quarter of the working population.
To stop misery in the country, one man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt – the President of the US - has a plan that seems simple: to restore hope. It's the New Deal, which sounds like an advertising slogan.
The New Deal was a series of programs, regulations, public work projects, and financial reforms in the US between 1933 and 1939.
The New Deal is like a novel: great victories, failures, ruthless opponents, and a hero, who doesn't quite look like one: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A man whose legs are disabled, but who travels around the country to convince people. A middle-class man who is thirsty for social justice. He was expected to do everything, especially miracles. A position that no head of state can envy, because disappointment is often equal to hope.
The film is directed by Julia Bracher and produced for France 5 prime time slot. Orchestrating images of the past this film opens minds for our common future.
Data sheet
- Directed by
- Julia Bracher
- Year
- 2021
- Genre
- Histoire
- Editing
- Adrien Guilloteau
- Author
- Julia Bracher
- Producer
- Les Films d'Ici - Laura Briand
- Mixage
- Louis Deurre
- Original soundtrack
- Laetitia Pansanel-Garric
- Broadcaster
- France 5
- Partners
- Procirep
- Manager of production
- Adeline Moulliet
- Langue
- Français & anglais
- Length
- 53'
- ISAN
- 0000-0005-B7F2-0000-C-0000-0000-1
- International sales
- Balanga