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Devil's Rope

Devil's Rope

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 30, 2014

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

80%

Original Title

Devil's Rope

Production Companies

alteregofilms, Les Films du Nord, RTBF, Pictanovo, Le Fresnoy

Director

Sophie Bruneau

Description

The history of barbed wire, whose use dates back to the first settlers of the Wild West, always driven by their reckless and ruthless spirit of conquest and selfish ambition to leave their mark on wild lands; of its relationship with politics and mercantilism; of the perversion of the millenary relationship between men and animals; of the evolution of surveillance techniques. Fences and borders: the tragic tale of the enclosure of the world.