Laurent Chevallier

Fin de vie : pour que tu aies le choix (2023)

Marina Carrère d'Encausse lifts the veil on the intimate questions that preoccupy her as well as society at large: those related to the end of life. The doctor-journalist introduces Antoine, her partner, who is suffering from Charcot's disease, an incurab ...

More Courage than Ever (2023)

lsény Camara is physically handicapped and needs to beg for money in order to provide for his family. This changes when he takes part in the creation of an artistic group "the handicapables" consisting of handicapped people performing dances and music, to ...

Faut-il avoir peur d'Amazon ? (2018)

Pour de vrai, pour de faux (2015)

La Trace de Kandia (2014)

Kandia "the gold voice of Manding", is the nickname given to Ibrahima Sory Kouyaté (1933 - 1977), which was the emblematic singer of independent Africa. ...

Apö Karim, Ambassadeur de l'Himalaya (2012)

Expérience africaine (2009)

La pépinière du désert (2009)

Aimé Césaire, un Nègre fondamental (2007)

Momo le doyen (2007)

La Vie sans Brahim (2003)

Circus Baobab (2001)

French filmmaker Laurent Chevallier always wanted to make a documentary on an African circus, but there were no native circuses on the continent. So Chevallier decided to help found a circus in Guinea. 36 young people were chosen from the city of Conakry t ...

Mögöbalu, Les Maîtres des Tambours d'Afrique (1998)

Le Cri du Caméléon (1997)

Mister Karim (1997)

Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound (1995)

With a revived interest in the scores created for Hollywood films in the 1930's and 40's. "Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound" explores a segment of that legacy through composers like Max Steiner ("Gone with the Wind"), Franz Waxman ("Bride of Frank ...

The African Child (1995)

In Kouroussa, his native village, little Baba lives happily, between Madou, his father, a gifted mechanic, Kouda, his sweet mother, and his gang of pals. Kouroussa is a wonderful place where Baba learns about life. But like all little boys Baba grows and n ...

Au Sud du Sud (1992)

The Transantarctic expedition led by the American Will Steger and the Frenchman Dr. Jean-Louis Étienne took place between July 1989 and March 1990. It was the first successful attempt to cross the entire extent of Antarctica without the use of motor power ...

Djembefola (1991)

African drummer leaves village, makes it big in the world. Great drumming!! ...

A Tale of the Wind (1989)

It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them on film. ...

Baquet's Comeback (1988)

July 1956: like every summer, the actor and cellist Maurice Baquet temporarily deserts the stage and the cinema studios to go to Chamonix where the mountaineer Gaston Rebuffat is waiting for him. A few days later, the two men achieved a historic first, tha ...

Trilogy for One Man (1987)

The most legendary 'sequence' ever achieved by a mountaineer: on 12 and 13 March 1987, in 40 hours, 26-year-old Christophe Profit managed to climb three of the highest north faces in the Alps, in winter: Grandes Jorasses, Eiger, and Matterhorn. But over an ...

The Measure of the Feat (1987)

A film about the preparation of the "Trilogy For a Single Man," about the medical and nutritional monitoring of French mountaineer Christophe Profit during his climbing "trilogy" and the period of intensive training that preceded one of the most fabulous " ...

La Lumière du Rocher (1986)

Little Karim (1985)

Christophe (1985)

It is 1 p.m. on June 30, 1982, when Christophe Profit, 24, shows up at the foot of Les Drus with his pof bag, his climbing shoes and nothing else. He will try the west face of Les Drus in "solo", in the Mont Blanc massif by "Directe Américaine", 1100 mete ...

The Backstage Wall (1983)

Behind the scenes of the filming of a film on climbing a cliff by Patrick Berhault and Georges Unia on the parishes of the route "La Tête de Chien" in Monaco. Director Laurent Chevallier explains the difficulties of filming at height, the kind of shots th ...

Dévers (1981)

Nanga Parbat 80, La revanche de futur (1980)

Voie Express (1979)

Berhault (2008)

La Vie sans Brahim (2003)

When the Mountaineers Make Their Cinema (2000)

Many mountaineers as part of their activity have used cameras and films to allow us to participate through images in their adventures and their emotions. Many of them have become true film professionals: Joseph Vallot, Lionel Terray, Marcel Ichac, Renè Ve ...

Mister Karim (1997)

Les Conquérants de l'Impossible: Portrait de Groupe (1986)

"The Conquerors of the Impossible: Group Portrait" is a documentary on free climbing which takes place in the Verdon Gorges and Toulon. It was directed by Bernard Dumont in 1986 and produced by Les Films du Soleil. It is part of the series The Conquerors o ...

The Backstage Wall (1983)

Behind the scenes of the filming of a film on climbing a cliff by Patrick Berhault and Georges Unia on the parishes of the route "La Tête de Chien" in Monaco. Director Laurent Chevallier explains the difficulties of filming at height, the kind of shots th ...