People from the Salto

Un double DVD de José Vieira
Contient: La Photo déchirée, Chronique d'une émigration clandestine 52', Seixas, Paris, Londres 40', Les chants du deserteur 26', Complices d'évasion 14', Un aller simple 12', La traversée pour Paris 11', 7 témoignages filmés, archives de presse et documents (dvdrom)

At the beginning of the 60's, thousands of Portuguese turned up in France through the underground. They were fleeing misery, war and repression. Left to unscrupulous smugglers, they had to cross the Iberian Peninsula tracked by the Portuguese and Spanish police. For many, the voyage towards France turned into a disaster. As a child in a shantytown, the author remembers having heard about these terrible odysseys. Thirty years later, he goes in search of the stories of his childhood and seeks to understand what sparked this unprecedented emigration.