The Snowshoers
MovieTitle | Les raquetteurs |
User score | 5.6 |
Release date | Jan 1, 1958 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Michel Brault , Gilles Groulx |
Production country | Canada |
Production companies | ONF | NFB |
Run time | 15 min. |
This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.