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Les Passagers de l'Alsace
The Passengers of Alsace
Ten Alsatians, one train, and three questions about looking, listening and speed.
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 52 min
- Countries
- France, Belgium
- Languages
- French
- Production
- Good & Bad News and Le Meilleur des Mondes
- Availability
- CBA, Brussels · Heure Exquise! (non-commercial)
Les Passagers de l'Alsace A foreigner rides the regional trains of Alsace and puts three questions to the strangers in his compartment: what a look means, how to listen to someone else, and how the land relates to speed. An ophthalmologist, a psychoanalyst, a winegrower and seven others answer. In passing, a region describes itself without saying the word identity.
From the film and the shoot
Frames and crew photographs from Rob’s archive.
Screenings
1 recorded
2022Focus Rob Rombout, StrasbourgRetrospective
Credits
- Direction
- Rob Rombout
- Image
- Samuel Dravet
- Editing
- Adriana Moreira de Oliveira
- Music
- Philippe Poirier
- With
- Christine Collin, Henri Dreyfus, Jean-Richard Freymann, Aurore Humbert, Sylvie Levy, Ibtissam Mellouki, André Ohrel, André Osterdag, Philippe Poirier, Daniel Ziegler
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Cite this pageRombout, Rob. Les Passagers de l'Alsace. 2002. https://www.robrombout.com/en/films/2002-les-passagers-de-lalsace/. Last verified 10 October 2026.