A short documentary about the 1962 Tour-de-France. Topics covered include: crowds of people and motorcycles, drinking raids and feeding, pileups, doping, "the charge," and the mountain stages.
Direction
Malle's vérité style predicts modern sports docs by decades.
Editing
Rapid-fire montages of crashes, crowds, and needles. Oof.

Director
Louis Malle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Louis Malle shot this between his features — a rare documentary detour for the French New Wave darling.
This unflinching look at doping scandalized France; the Tour's organizers tried to suppress it.
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