Biography

Luc Decaster was brought up in Saint-Nazaire, the French capital of naval shipyards. As a teenager, he prepared a boiler maker's vocational diploma and he was marked by the conflicts between the shipyard workers and the riot police. Having become a design draftsman at Chausson in the Paris area, Decaster discovered the working conditions in the motor industry. At the same time he started studying history and specialized in the labor movement. He became a history teacher in 1976. Later on, he set about studying film making and finally gave up teaching in 1991 to direct documentaries. His best one, "Rêve d'usine" about the closing of a factory, won the Great Prize at the Festival International du Film d'Environnement.
- IMDb mini biography by: Guy Bellinger