Mineurs

The double meaning in french of film title MINEURS resume the sense of the film mineurs as children and as mineworkers in the coalmines Italy at the beginning of the sixties In a little village in Lucanie little region in the south four children live in a situation of absolute poverty but with their plays in the street succeed in living in happiness In the air the menace and in the same time the hope of a telephonic convocation by their relatives already at work in coalmines in Belgie in the mine district of Limburg Two of our children leave with their families to reach the numerous Italian community of Flandres The children will have a lot of problems in the school and with the language to integrate in a hostile ambient but at the end the will succeed