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Jour de marché

Market's day
Markttag
Jour de marché

Switzerland, October 2002
FILM, Documentary, 90 min.

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directed by
Jacqueline Veuve
Written by
Jacqueline Veuve
Status
In distribution

A market in the town of Vevey on Lake Geneva (Lac Léman). It has existed for over 500 years in the exact same spot. In the old days people came from the surrounding countryside with wagons, carts and horses loaded down with wood, hay, chestnuts, butter, cheese. Earlier periods are recreated with the help of engravings and photographs showing the many changes in means of transport and life styles that have occurred over the years. For a good 12 months the camera spied on some of the more interesting characters of the market, both at work and at play: a fisherwoman (her family trade passed down through the generations for 5000 years); a 70-year-old mushroom collector, an organic market gardener and his son Sébastien, a woman from Cameroon and the Vevey region’s oldest farmer with her bachelor son. As the seasons change a woman who sells poultry and a florist also make their appearance at the market. They are all people who make a scant living, and who with each passing year are being replaced at the market by retailers. The film pays tribute to people who have inherited a trade and a way of life that in most cases are on the verge of extinction.

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World Premiere
October 2002
Original Version
French,  colour, 35mm, 90 min.
Production
Ciné Manufacture CMS SA, Aquarius Film Production, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
Producer
Robert Boner
directed by
Jacqueline Veuve
Written by
Jacqueline Veuve (in collaboration with Lionel Baier)
Cinemato­graphy
Hugues Ryffel, Milivoj Ivkovic
Location Sound Mix
Luc Yersin, Fred Kohler

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SAGA Production Sàrl

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