Prix et profits (la pomme de terre)

Prix et profits (la pomme de terre) describes the path of the potato from the peasant producer to the urban working class consumer. Every level of the capitalist market system is revealed: The principle of price inflation causes exploitation at both ends of the food supply chain, while the middlemen in the Parisian wholesale market district of Les Halles earn big. The silent film is the joint work of filmmaker Yves Allégret, poet Jacques Prévert, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michel Collinet, and cinematographer Eli Lotar. Prix et profits (la pomme de terre) was produced by the Coopérative de l'enseignement laïque, a group associated with the Freinet educational reform movement, which distributed films in 9.5 mm format to rural schools.