At Père Lachaise(1986)

movie - first aired/released 1986-05-21 - 13 min - audience 6.5

Documentary

Directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet, Pierre-Marie Goulet

Père Lachaise cemetery reflects the socio-economic hierarchy of French society during the second half of the 19th century. The film pays homage to the Communards who were shot and whose simple commemorative gravestone contrasts with the insolence of the monuments of the great bourgeois families.