Small Escapes (1979) ( Les petites fugues )

Small Escapes (1979) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Les petites fugues
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Switzerland ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
130 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition
Trailer(s)
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1979 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Yves Yersin

Written By:
Claude Muret
Yves Yersin

Actors:
Michel Robin ..... Pipe
Fabienne Barraud ..... Josiane
Fred Personne ..... John
Dore De Rosa ..... Luigi
Mista Préchac ..... Rose
Laurent Sandoz ..... Alain
Nicole Vautier ..... Marianne
Léo Maillard ..... Stephane
Pierre Bovet ..... Le facteur
Roland Amstutz ..... Le conseiller en gestion
Maurice Buffat ..... Le garde-police
Yvette Théraulaz ..... La pompiste
Joseph Leiser ..... Le contremaître de la fabrique de chocolat
Gerald Battiaz ..... Le coureur moto 32
Martine Simon ..... Bica

Synopsis:

Pipe, an elderly farmworker, experiences an exemplary transformation during 30 years of work on the same farm. The film shows how he buys a small motor-cycle, and how this small step represents the beginning of his liberation from his dependence and submission, and the development of independence and an autonomous existence. The film also describes, by way of contrast, a critical phase in the life of the farm and the Duperrex family, Pipe's employers - a period of crisis, change, and the overthrowal of accepted values. Pipe's individual destiny upsets and disturbs the normal life of the farm to an ever-increasing degree, and his experiences threaten to jeopardize the members of the group to which he belongs. Symbolically, the film describes a possible journey into the future which has all the appearances of desirability: independence.

Pipe (Michel Robin) has worked on the same farm for forty of his 66 years of living. Now he is in his 'salad' years, and in retirement is free to explore the world in ways he never did before. He buys a small motorcycle with the help of an Italian migrant laborer and begins touring the countryside. Formerly somewhat docile, he gets into scrapes and fights, and eventually loses his cycle. Nonetheless, he has a chance to see the Alps from the sky. He has always wanted to see these legendary mountains, and is disappointed to realize that they are just big piles of rock.

Pipe, an elderly farmworker, experiences an exemplary transformation during 30 years of work in the same farm. The film shows how he buys a small motorcycle, and how this small step represents the beginning of his liberation from his dependence and submission, and the development of his independence and an autonomous existence.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 29 March, 2014.

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