Grands soirs & petits matins (1968)

I was not sure which year to assign it; the Internet Movie Database says 1978, without explanation, and lists 1993 as the first known date of release (in Germany); a French DVD site reports the date as 1971, but it doesn't say if it is a date of release, or the year the film was completed. I chose to put the year it was filmed.

English release title: Maydays.
French title's translation: Big Evenings & Small Mornings.

The version viewed was less than 2 hours long (IMDb says there is a 240 minute version).

Documentary about the manifestations in Paris, in May 1968, in which students and workers, and also some intellectuals, took part.

I am not commenting much on the political side to it, which is more or less evident per the account of the film itself. As a document, it is extraordinary, of course, although it is not very didactic -- the only explanations are the brief intertitles which precede each sequence. And it is not only instructive, but also entertaining -- the snippets of discussions will interest the politically educated (and educate the politically interested), and some more prosaic aspects, like the mother who telephones to know about her missing son, are amusing too.