When the World Breaks

 

Jean Cocteau had already noticed it: great films are made in troubled countries, and as soon as those countries bounce back, their creative standards get lower. Truth or not, this documentary takes on the 1929 crisis in the US and its consequences during the 1930s (and it doesn’t forget about its links to the current American crisis), but its issue is the creativity that sprung during those yea [...]

Runtime

84 min