The Time Factory (2021)
Overview
Who invented time, who invented the clock? Why 1 hour, why 60 minutes, why 60 seconds? Since prehistoric times, man has sought to measure time, to organize social and religious life, to plan food supply... Today we can surf the Internet, geolocate, pay by credit card… All our daily lives depend on time and the synchronization of clocks. The history of the invention of time and of the ways and instruments to measure it is a long story…
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| Original Language | fr |
| Popularity | 0.167 |
Directed By
Herlé Jouon
Crew
Hugues Demeude
Pacôme Delva
Sébastien Thiébot-Chiffoleau
Geoffroy Groult
Guillaume Pérès
Stéphane Peyrot
Pierre Criscolo
Pierre Dugarcien
Herlé Jouon
Séverine Labadie
Éric Billon
Sylviane Brossard
Yohan Simmoneau
Matthieu Cathelineau
Alexandre Naureils
Joseph Haley
Xavier Lang
Jérémie Pouchard
Alexandre Bouazza
Georgios Papastamoulis
Jean-Luc Millan
Jérémy Lesquelen
Aurélie Mattlé
Éric Billon
Maëva Vignaud
Marie-Christine Oranger
Anne Fredon
Maryline Holluigue
Nicolas Ouchagour
Sébastien Bonnefon
Gaëllle Bruniau
David Guyard
Sylviane Brossard
Pierre Criscolo
Sébastien Thiébot-Chiffoleau
TOP CAST
Nathalie Spitzer
Narrator (voice)
Pacôme Delva
Self
Denis Savoie
Self
Kostas Kotsanas
Self
Efthymios Nicolaidis
Self
Meropi Morfouli
Self
Emily Akkermans
Self
Vanessa Haussener
Self
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