Patrick Rotman

Jorge Semprún, la plume au poing (2024)

De Gaulle le retour : 13 mai 1958 (2018)

Histoire secrète de l’antiterrorisme (2018)

De Gaulle, the Last King of France (2017)

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France's current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general's personality through ...

La Tragédie des Brigades Internationales (2016)

L'Homme du destin, De Gaulle 1940 - 1944 (2015)

Being President (2013)

For the very first time and in complete exclusivity, Patrick Rotman films the daily work of french President François Hollande. Through an essential mise-en-scène, the film penetrates and reveals the core of the Elysée Palace. ...

68 (2012)

From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to Prague, a wave of protests shook the world. 68 looks back at the looks back at the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion, the Paris riots, Dubcek, Che Guevara, De Gaulle, Cohn-Bendrik and ...

Les fauves: Sarkozy - Villepin, 15 ans d'affrontements (2012)

Les Fauves covers 15 years of hostility between Nicolas Sarkozy and Dominique de Villepin, from the 1995 presidential elections to the present day. Much of the French political right's history can be expressed in the no-holds-barred battle between these tw ...

Ivo Livi dit Yves Montand (2011)

The Conquest (2011)

A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power. ...

A Wall in Berlin (2009)

Intimate Enemies (2007)

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence. ...

Chirac (2006)

Faced with President François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac embodied the opposition. In 1986, the right won the legislative elections and he became Prime Minister. After two years of tough cohabitation, François Mitterrand was re-elected in 1988. After a mo ...

Les survivants (2005)

Ten survivors from the nazi camps speak about their struggle. ...

Dark Night, October 17, 1961 (2005)

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma's recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the ...

ÉTÉ 44 - La libération (2004)

How, after four years of occupation, France was liberated between the spring and autumn of 1944. Patrick Rotman, writer, historian and director, offers a historical and political analysis of this significant period in history, from operations "Overlord" an ...

L'Ennemi intime (2002)

This film on torture in Algeria retraces, in its complexity, the history of torture during this war. It responds to simple questions even if the answers are complex : when, how, why and how many ? Using interviews from soldiers, confessions from the drafte ...

De Gaulle : le retour (1998)

Carlos: Terrorist Without Borders (1997)

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist. ...

The Undeclared War (1992)

Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors. ...

The Conquest (2011)

A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power. ...

The Undeclared War (1992)

Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors. ...