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On the Trail of Easy Rider: 40 Years On... Still Searching for America

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"A man went looking for America.... And couldn't find it anywhere!" proclaimed the original Easy Rider poster. Four decades later filmmakers Simon Witter and Hannes Rossacher set out to see if they could find America, retracing the film's original route across the country with Easy Rider super fans Jim Leonard and Mike Kittrell, on a quest to find out how the many issues that resonated through the film had developed, for better or worse, in the interim. Along the way they met musicians, journalists, academics, seasteading idealists, drug policy experts and healers, and heard from the film's makers and extras about the dramatic genesis of the cult film that blew like a wind of change through the stilted kitsch of mainstream cinema in 1969, re-writing the rulebook on genre, drugs, music, cinematography and even the use of non-actors, holding a mirror up to the values of a changing America.

French (fr-FR)

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Sur les traces d'Easy Rider

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Quarante ans plus tard, Simon Witter et Hannes Rossacher ont parcouru la même route pour le documentaire en quatre volets Sur les traces d'Easy Rider. Une aventure racontée en français par le comédien Gérard Lanvin.

Le périple raconté par cette série documentaire démarre lui aussi à L.A. dans le « musée » personnel de Jim Leonard, qui collectionne des objets (dont un chopper) et des décors ayant servi au film. Chemin faisant, on retrouve les lieux où ont été tournées les scènes d'Easy Rider; on écoute les comédiens qui l'ont incarné, Peter Fonda et Dennis Hopper, en dévoiler les coulisses : le tournage en cinq semaines, les disputes, l'origine des motos qui ont d'abord appartenu à la police (un comble !) puis ont été rachetées aux enchères et customisées par des motards noirs de Los Angeles. Et l'on rencontre des spécialistes qui replacent le film dans son époque.

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