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For a Yellow Jersey

Name: For a Yellow Jersey
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1965-12-31
Duration: 26 min
Rating: 7

★ 7,0 /10 (4 Votes)

1965 FR 26 min

Overview

The film follows the 1965 Tour de France not as a sports documentary but an atmospheric film of the events that surround it. Where riders are shown racing, it is an illustration of the hardship or the danger they face. The main events are the daily routines of the competitors, the bossing about of spectators by officials (which Lelouch emphasises by adding animal noises to the soundtrack), the monotonous days of journalists who follow the race for hours to write only a few hundred words, and the evening entertainment laid on by the Europe-1 radio station.

Release date

31/12/1965

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Popularity

1.3