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The Asbestos grave: Chronicle of a desaster foretold
Le Tombeau de l'Amiante: chronique d'un désastre annoncé
Directors
Marie-Anne Mengeot
Nina Toussaint
Producers
Isabelle Truc
Editors
Guillaume Nolevaux
Juliette Kergoat
Sound
Pierre Dozin
Official Film Website
Contact
IOTA PRODUCTION
7 Clos des pommiers, 1310 La Hulpe – Belgium
+32 2 344 65 31
[email protected]
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2021
Belgium
90 min
Color, Black & White
With the archives of eleven broadcasts made for RTBF from 1977 to 2003, a crucial period in the use of asbestos in Belgium emerges. All the risks were known to the industrialists, but the workers will gradually discover them through illness and death. These are the years before the ban on asbestos, years cynically won by the industry, thanks to its propaganda, its denial and its lies, to maintain its profits.
Director
Nina Toussaint is a filmmaker from Cologne who graduated from INSAS.
She has directed several documentary films: The Twins, about the reunion and heartbreak between two twin brothers, war orphans, in divided and then reunified Germany. Le crime quotidien, the story of Zoé Milher, founder of SOS Inceste Belgium, on her journey as a raped and bruised child.
Marie-Anne Mengeot is a journalist. She worked at RTBF from 1973 to 2003 for prime time news programs, including: Situation (socio-economic magazine), À suivre (investigations and reports), Si vous saviez and Autant Savoir (consumption, environment, health): more than 200 programs on health, environment, work and consumption issues. Author of 11 programs with different directors on the asbestos issue from 1977 to 2003.
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