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Spark: The Origins of Pride (The)

Country: France, Language: French, 98 mins

Original Title

L'étincelle: Une histoire des luttes LGBT+
  • Director: Benoît Masocco
  • Writer: Benoît Masocco

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This is a story of anger. That of the customers of the “Stonewall inn”, in a gay bar in New-York. It’s 1969 and they don’t have the right to stand in the street or even dance. One more police raid. A revolt. Several days of riots. This is our starting point to tell an almost unknown story: fifty years of struggle for equality, for humanity, for love… the history of the LGBTQ+ struggle.

This is a story of three cities. This story will be told through the perspective of three iconic neighborhoods: the Castro in San Francisco, Le Marais in Paris and Greenwich Village in New York. Each of these neighborhoods tell of a specific moment: the repression in the 60s and 70s, the appearance of AIDS in the 80s, the phenomenon of fashion with the appearance of gay marketing and drag-queens in the 90s, the struggle for marriage equality and normalization from the 2000s.

This is a story of trans, women and men. Told with a cinematic narrative, with few comments, this film is made up of interviews of direct witnesses of that time (personalities, artists, politicians, entrepreneurs or ordinary citizens), rare archives and current-day filming in these neighborhoods that have so changed.

This is a story of pride.


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Cast & Characters

Robert Badinter
Jenny Bel'Air
Dustin Lance Black
Marie-Jo Bonnet
Bertrand Delanoë
Lillian Faderman
Cleve Jones
Marie Kirschen
Gerard Koskovich
Hervé Latapie
Gérard Lefort
Didier Lestrade
John Cameron Mitchell
Edmund White