Wrestling (1961 Film) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wrestling (Original French title: La lutte) is a 1961 documentary film about professional wrestling, co-directed by Michel Brault, Marcel Carriere, Claude Fournier and Claude Jutra. Wrestling was shot in the Montreal Forum, where major bouts were staged, as well as wrestling parlors where would be wrestlers learned and practiced their craft. The filmmakers had intended to make a film exposing, in slow motion, the fakery of professional wrestling, until a chance encounter with French philosopher Roland Barthes changed their minds.