Carpita, Le Rendez-vous des quais
- Artist/Author/Producer: Paul Carpita
- Confronting Bodies: Official censors
- Dates of action: October 1955
- Location: France, Marseille
- Description of the Art Work
- The subject is explosive: in 1950, with the background of a docker's
strike, protesting against the Indochinese War, the film exposes the
difficulties of a young worker who is looking for an apartment to rent.
The hero will not hesitate to betray his class, to become a "yellow,"
until a revolutionary illumination opens his eyes.
- Description of incident
- The film is released in several film theatres of Marseille. After several
screenings, the police arrive, take hold of the prints and put them under
sequestration.
- Results of incident
- In 1988: by miracle the impounded prints are found . Le Rendez-vous des
quais is screened at the French CinEmathFque in the program Ecrans de la
libertE.
Source:Les Cahiers du Cinema, No 428, Deb. 1990