The Farrier

In this film Georges Rouquier describes the activity of the farrier in the multiplicity of its aspects But the filmmaker does not limit his remarks to a pure technical description he does not forget the man nor his family and village environment nor the history where his life was written at a given moment The director films Marcel Laforge a blacksmith living in a small village in the Charentes Garrat Shot in one week the film is a reconstruction everything has been staged from fragments of multiple realities This short film is articulated around three themes sometimes confronted but often confused the man the history and the trade