Filmmaker Pierre Patrolin spent nearly one year crisscrossing France with his camera and crew searching out trees: remarkable or unknown; short or tall; tucked deep in the countryside or standing in the heart of a city. He draws a portrait of each of these different trees in images and stories. A remarkable tree raising up from the roof of a pigeon coop, or the simplicity of an old oak in the bend of a road. A majestic cedar or a maritime pine bent over by the wind. An elm, a linden, a willow. In the rain, the snow or the frost, or spared by a fire. An olive tree in Roqueburne, or a pear tree at Versailles. A beech in Ponthus, or an anonymous oak. From northern France to Corsica, from season to season, from legend to tradition: 130 one-minute portraits that introduce viewers to unique or moving trees.

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Credits

Directed by

Pierre Patrolin

Co-writers:

Bernard Chapuis

Produced by

Cie des Phares & Balises

Technical information

Copyright :

2005

Running time:

130 x 52 sec.

Broadcasts :

France 2 (November 2004 to June 2005)

Shot in :

Digital Beta

Stills Photographer :

Yann Matton