First part: the harvest.
A series of three short films.
"The man who did not want to leave his childhood" is the story of a man who rlook like that of many of us, an enthusiast. Christian Hoel is passionate about the memories of his childhood.
A childhood discovery of agricultural technology that arrived in post-war France. A technology that has brought extraordinary machines by their techniques, shapes and sounds. How not to be forever marked in childhood and never leave these memories as an adult, since these machines are still functional.
Christian Hoel and his friends from the association Tracto-Rétro-Percheron re-live these machines and re-practice the gestures of yesteryear, like the children they were and who saw them doing ...
The Association Tracto-Rétro-Percheron offers with simplicity, pedagogy and friendship to live together a moment of "happiness to share". This first film makes us live the harvest of the wheat as it was in the 50s to 60s. But that does not stop there: To follow, the next film of "The man who did not want to leave his childhood" : second part: The machines ...