La Ferme des Bertrand

Introducing

This is a film that veers between the pitfalls of the misery of the past, to deliver a vision of the farming world that is both social and intimate.

Synopsis

Haute Savoie, 1972: the Bertrand farm, a dairy farm with around a hundred head of cattle run by three single brothers, was filmed for the first time and would remain so for the next 50 years. In 1997, director Gilles Perret made his first film about them as neighbours, just as the three farmers were in the process of handing over the farm to their nephew Patrick and his wife Hélène. Twenty-five years later, the director took up the camera again to accompany Hélène as she, in turn, passed on the farm.