A comic musical sketch with six harmonica players, including a dwarf who insists on taking part in the number despite his partners’ refusal. To get his way, he uses cunning and intimidation, fists and smiles, crooks and hands over the heart. Finally, he narrowly escapes the beating he deserves by fleeing backstage.
The spellbinding power of the sounds and rhythms that have for centuries marked a still time of birth and death, the ringing of bells and the activity of bell-ringing continue in the Haut-Pays Niçois, strongly linked to a whole range of musical practices. In these valleys where men have had to leave to earn their … Continued
Original title : Le Chant du Piroguier Children playing in Morocco. A film-maker in Paris listens to the voice of his heroine, an opera singer. The song links the two spaces. The filming does not take place.