Bruno Muel

De jour... comme de nuit (1992)

A documentary about the Baumettes prison, in Marseille, France. ...

Le Dos au mur (1981)

Quand les femmes ont pris la colère (1977)

The action takes place in a metallurgical factory which was part of the Pechiney-Ugine-Külhman trust in Couëron, Loire-Atlantique, in 1975. To show their solidarity with their husbands on strike, workers' wives invaded the director's office and obtained ...

The struggle continues (1977)

The daily life of Luanda's orphans, the child soldiers who took part in Angola's war of independence. Now that their country has been liberated, they work in the sugar cane and palm oil factories. Lopes, aged 10, forms an orchestra and sings A luta continu ...

Guerre du peuple en Angola (1975)

Guerre du peuple en Angola focuses on the situation in Angola in June 1975, when the declaration of independence sparks the start of a civil war. The filmmakers, who went there to train young Angolan filmmakers, bring back this film, unequivocally presenti ...

With the Blood of Others (1974)

A famous documentary about the Peugeot factory in Sochaux in the 1970s. In this region, everything is owned by Peugeot: homes, stores, schools and leisure - there is no escaping it. The production line dictates the rhythm of everyday life: a horrible machi ...

Septembre Chilien (1973)

Bruno Muel's documentary on the coup in Chile in 1973. Muel, who was part of the famed Medvedkine group, along with Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard, among others, captured one of the most powerful portraits of the early days of Dictatorship. Profound sol ...

Week-end à Sochaux (1972)

A group of young militant workers, OS at the Peugeot plant, solicited at home by the in-house recruiters, disembark in Sochaux carrying all their belongings on their backs and immediately snatched up by the chains of the Peugeot empire, manufacturing chain ...

Tahia Ya Didou ! (1971)

Originally commissioned by the city of Algiers to promote tourism, Mohamed Zinet's Tahia ya Didou blends documentary with fiction to create a poetic, acerbic and rapturous portrait of the director's native city. The camera travels freely, through the port, ...

Techniquement Si Simple (1971)

Les Trois Cousins (1970)

The Three Cousins ​​is a comedy-drama by René Vautier released in 1970 about the living conditions of three Algerian immigrant cousins ​​looking for work in Paris. Housed in a narrow construction shed, the coal stove will cause them to suffocate. ...

Les Ajoncs (1970)

An unemployed Algerian worker leaves Paris by hitchhiking. He soon found himself in Brittany and, seduced by the beauty of wild gorse, eventually established himself as a gorse merchant. But for problems with parking his little cart, he had a rough explana ...

Sochaux June 11th 1968 (1970)

Witnesses tell of the day the police took over the Peugeot factories in Sochaux on strike for 22 days. Balance: two dead, one hundred and fifty wounded. The first film by Sochaux's Medvedkine group, this film recounts one of the most violent episodes of Ma ...

Class of Struggle (1969)

A follow-up to Be Seeing You (À bientôt, j'espère), this collective work—initiated by Chris Marker and the Medvedkin Group—was made in collaboration with workers at the Yema Watch Factory in Besançon. It follows a female worker who becomes active i ...

The Panafrican Festival in Algiers (1969)

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all across Algiers. Klein follows the preparations, the rehearsals, the concerts… He blends images of interviews ...

Be Seeing You (1968)

A documentary look at striking workers in a textile plant in Besançon, France, centering on interviews with workers about their motivations for becoming involved with the union and the struggles of their day to day life. ...

Sangha (1967)

Documentary about diamond mining in the Central African Republic ...

Far from Vietnam (1967)

In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War. ...

Algeria, Year Zero (1965)

Documentary on the beginnings of Algerian independence filmed during the summer of 1962 in Algiers. The film was banned in France and Algeria but won the Grand Prize at the Leipzig International Film Festival in 1965. Out of friendship, the production comp ...

Rio Chiquito (1965)

Documentary filmed in 1965 by two journalists in the remote town of Rio Chiquito, Colombia, a self-proclaimed communist "republic." The film shows the live of villagers and guerilleros before and after an attack by Colombian government forces. ...

Muel et Corouge, ouvriers des groupes Medvedkine (2018)

Interview with Bruno Muel and Christian Corouge, former members of Sochaux's Medvedkine group, filmed at La Hestejada de las arts in Uzeste, by Olivier Azam (co-founder and member of the Mutins de Pangée cooperative). "A trace in the collective and worki ...

Les Trois Cousins (1970)

The Three Cousins ​​is a comedy-drama by René Vautier released in 1970 about the living conditions of three Algerian immigrant cousins ​​looking for work in Paris. Housed in a narrow construction shed, the coal stove will cause them to suffocate. ...