L'Affaire Dominici par Orson Welles

This documentary testifies to the improbable meeting of one of France’s most famous post-war criminal cases, and one of America’s major filmmakers. In 1955, Orson Welles directed a 26-minute film about the Dominici affair, which was to be broadcasted for the launch of the brand new British television station ITV. The film, entitled The Lurs Tragedy, after the village where the crime took place, was never completed. Our documentary presents the film, which has now been restored. It is the only document shot shortly after the trial in which the majority of the protagonists in the Dominici affair express themselves. It was also Orson Welles’s first experience directing for the television.
Accompanied Orson Welles - and Alain Pol - who worked as cameraman on the director’s television works - our documentary is a journey into History : that of the television and the cinema, that of the life of Gaston Dominici, a poor rural man in post-war France, and that of his guilt, which is still a matter of controversy today.