ULTRAVIOLETTE AND THE BLOOD-SPITTERS GANG

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ULTRAVIOLETTE ET LE GANG DES CRACHEUSES DE SANG

By Robin HUNZINGER

LIGHTDOX - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2021

The story of a first love that marked two teenage girls forever.

IDFA 2021

ReFrame Award for Best Creative Use of Archive

Festival Chéries-Chéris 2021

LGBT Film Festival Ljubljana 2021

Festival Ecrans Mixtes 2022

Grand Prix & Audience Award

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2022

BFI Flare Film Festival 2022

Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival 2022

Special Mention

É Tudo Verdade/It’s All True 2022

Honorable Mention in the International Competition for Feature or Medium-Length Documentary

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 74 mn
- Director(s)
- Robin HUNZINGER
- Producer(s)
- Milana CHRISTITCH (Ana Films)
- Synopsis
- After the death of his grandmother Emma, Robin Hunzinger and his mother Claudie found a carefully preserved collection of letters which Emma received from a girl called Marcelle. Marcelle and Emma met in the mid-1920s. Secretly, love blossomed between the two teenage girls, but after two years they parted ways. Marcelle developed tuberculosis and was admitted to a sanatorium, where she wrote many letters to Emma, letters that still burn with great evocative power. At the sanatorium, rebellious Marcelle, nicknamed ‘Ultraviolette’, led a group of three young women who were also sick. The film, told through Marcelle’s eloquent letters, combines archive footage, avant-garde films, and music to create a sensuous, poetic atmosphere of absolute love, a daring young woman ahead of her time and a group of kindred spirits which break the barrier of time.