René Vietto*, the cycling Pagnol, who passed away in 1988, was a brilliant inventor, an extraordinary climber and descender, and made millions of people dream and cry in the 1930s and 1940s. Unfortunately, the war took away his best years, and he was never able to conquer his Grail, the Tour de France. A magnificent loser and a person with a unique character, he never had the career that life promised him, but he wrote some of the most beautiful sporting and human stories during a tumultuous period.
This documentary aims to tell his legend and fill a gap. It tells this great, little-known human and French story.
Its director Julien Camy explains: “Originally from the same village of Rocheville, near Cannes, I set out in search of him on the roads of France, meeting former cyclists, revisiting the places of his triumphs and tragedies, trying to convey emotions, to tell this extraordinary human journey and history of France that can be read through his destiny.”
He is already focused: “A film about a man, about men, about these dreams we pursue, about a certain period of France and a region, about a type of cycling and another era… about all of humanity summarized in a majestic pedal stroke and those dizzying landscapes as the quest of a lifetime.”
And there will be a lot of music: from Kazabian to Ravel, from Peter Van Poehl to the Allesi Brothers, from Marvin Gaye to Curtis Harding…
The crowdfunding is on the ULULE site and is supported by the association Givesmefiveminuteprod, which is participating in the documentary produced by ACIS Production.
