Ménilmontant

Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926, independent, almost no titles. Two sisters flee a country killing, reach the Ménilmontant district of Paris; one is used and abandoned, the other works. Nadia Sibirskaïa, Kirsanoff's partner, carries the face the film is built on. Handheld streets, superimpositions, a fair. CNC and the Cinémathèque restored the 38-minute cut that circulates. Made outside the companies, on the cheap, which is why it looks like someone grabbed the city.