Les hommes du port
A documentary in which Alain Tanner returns to the port of Genoa, a place that marked him deeply in his youth. Through images of dockworkers, ships, and daily harbor life, Tanner reflects on labor, memory, and the passage of time. His voice-over weaves personal recollections with observations on the social and economic transformations of the port, particularly the decline of worker self-management and solidarity in the face of modernization and privatization. Both intimate and political, the film becomes a meditation on lost utopias, the dignity of work, and the enduring poetry of port life.
- 1995
- 1 Hr 4 Mins
- Documentary
A documentary in which Alain Tanner returns to the port of Genoa, a place that marked him deeply in his youth. Through images of dockworkers, ships, and daily harbor life, Tanner reflects on labor, memory, and the passage of time. His voice-over weaves personal recollections with observations on the social and economic transformations of the port, particularly the decline of worker self-management and solidarity in the face of modernization and privatization. Both intimate and political, the film becomes a meditation on lost utopias, the dignity of work, and the enduring poetry of port life.
