Director – Henry Colomer
Music by Jacopo Baboni Schilingi
2002 – 52 minutes
Production – Artline Films, Arte France, BNF, Musée d’Orsay
Distribution – Artline Films
Through the texts and drawings of Victor Hugo, take part to an autobiographical immersion into the creative intimacy of the exiled poet, still in struggle with history. As a travel diary, the drawings and works of Victor Hugo allows us to percieve, year after year, the tumultuous parts of his life. From 1851 to 1870, he had to exil himself from France after the coup led by Napoleon Bonaparte. His public speeches and positions against « Little Napoleon » or against the death penalty has to be related with more personnal, intimate and existancial meditations inwhich the autor was engaged : « Our life is made of death, this about how the lteeriyng law is. We are sepulchers. »