Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy

Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy

2DCS/ES
Director:Stéphanie Valloatto
Length:102 minutes
Genre:Document

One World 2015

Director: Stéphanie Valloatto

A few pen strokes can amuse or enrage. Paris, Moscow, Jerusalem, New York, Beijing, Caracas ... famous French cartoonist Plantu travelled to his peers around the world and discovered that cartoonists are pretty much the same everywhere. Local conditions may differ but they all have these things in common: wit, grace, and the art of expressing in a drawing what others cannot say in words. A good cartoon can unnerve the powerful worldwide. The terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo confirmed that the cartoonist's occupation can be as dangerous as a soldier's. - See more at: http://www.oneworld.cz/2015/films-a-z/28760-cartoonists-foot-soldiers-of-democracy#sthash.RNLpMHaE.dpuf

Length: 102 min

Year: 2014

Country of origin:

  • France

One World 2015

Director: Stéphanie Valloatto

A few pen strokes can amuse or enrage. Paris, Moscow, Jerusalem, New York, Beijing, Caracas ... famous French cartoonist Plantu travelled to his peers around the world and discovered that cartoonists are pretty much the same everywhere. Local conditions may differ but they all have these things in common: wit, grace, and the art of expressing in a drawing what others cannot say in words. A good cartoon can unnerve the powerful worldwide. The terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo confirmed that the cartoonist's occupation can be as dangerous as a soldier's. - See more at: http://www.oneworld.cz/2015/films-a-z/28760-cartoonists-foot-soldiers-of-democracy#sthash.RNLpMHaE.dpuf

Year: 2014

Country of origin:

  • France