THE rise and fall of the plastiC sandal
Director: Florian Vallée
Author: Florian Vallée
Executive Producers: O2B Films • KWASSA Films
Broadcasters: France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes • RTBF • BeTV • TV5 Monde
Release year: 2020
Running time: 52 minutes
International sales: Mediawan
Let’s give plastic sandals back the place they deserve in the pantheon of human footwear! Because while no one has forgotten the torment they put us through every summer, how many of us knows their true story? Who ever considered the extraordinary fate of this plastic gem, invented by accident? Who remembers that, born in Auvergne, it experienced exile, deprivation and war? Who knows that it once embodied a social ideal and the promise of a better world? Who could have imagined that it would turn the greatest pages of the 20th-century history one by one, until becoming the icon of an entire people! It is high time to revisit its darkest and most glorious moments.