• Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, ZADIG PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2009

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV, NON-THEATRICAL, VOD

"68 Year Zero" retraces the lives of six Europeans whose life-paths were drastically changed by the events of 1968.

A feminist high-school student from Turin, who became a political activist with Lotta Continua, a Maosist Parisian student "established" at the Peugeot plants, a Peugeot worker and union activist, who took part in the strike occupation from May to June 1968, a young German woman, fully engaged in the student protest movement, who became involved in the feminist and ecology movements, a Czechoslovakian couple who, having lived through the Prague Spring, rose up against the Soviet invasion and the "normalisation" regime, and spent years in prison as a result.
How were their lives changed by the commitment they made back then? How did their commitment change and how did evolve in the ensuing decades? Their names are Vicky Franzinetti, Yves Cohen, Jean-Paul Gitta, Eva Quistorp, Petr Uhl and Anna Sabatova. Their lives bear witness to the blaze of 1968, but also to what 1968 became and to its legacy, on a European scale.