René Vautier

Histoires d’images, images d’Histoire (2014)

In 1950, in full reconstruction, the workers of Brest went on strike. It will last more than a month and will be bloody. Edouard Mazé, a 26-year-old worker from Brest, will die during the demonstration on April 17, dozens of his comrades will be injured a ...

Entretien avec Pierre Clément (1998)

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1996)

60 years ago, in the Algerian desert, an atomic bomb, equivalent to three or even four times Hiroshima, exploded. Named the "Blue Gerboise", it was the first atomic bomb tested by France, and of hitherto unrivaled power. This 70 kiloton plutonium bomb was ...

Hirochirac 1995 (1995)

Et le mot frère et le mot camarade (1995)

Mys et Thienot (1990)

Mission Pacifique (1988)

Vous avez dit Français ? (1987)

Ensemble, vivre et travailler (1986)

Video film on the relationship between immigrant workers and the French working class, shown in working-class and student circles. ...

Paris pour la paix (1986)

À Propos De... L'autre Détail (1985)

Documentary edited from testimonies on the torture of people who experienced the war. Some witnesses were tortured by Jean-Marie Le Pen. These testimonies will help defend the newspaper Le Canard Enchaîné in court against Jean-Marie Le Pen for defamation ...

Guerre aux images en Algérie (1985)

Chateaubriand, mémoire vivante (1985)

Tournevache (1985)

Briser le bâillon (1984)

Fort Du Conquet Destruction of the Vautier Archives (1983)

Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the Medvedkine group after May 1968 and defender of Breton autonomy, René Vautier was a committed filmmaker, author of an anti-colonialist work in which he de ...

Déjà le sang de mai ensemençait novembre (1982)

The essay by René Vautier, "Déjà le sang de Mai ensemençait Novembre", starts with the recapitulation of the representations of Algeria throughout the history of visual arts in France in an effort to explore the causes for the quest for independence. ...

Le Scorpion de Saint-Nazaire (1980)

Marée noire et colère rouge (1978)

March 16, 1978. The Amoco-Cadiz supertanker tanker sank off Portsall, a small port in northern Finistère. This film sets out to demonstrate the misleading information campaign that followed the accident as well as its disastrous ecological consequences. R ...

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 ...

Carte blanche à Gilles Servat (1977)

Carte blanche à Glenmor (1977)

Quand tu disais, Valéry (1976)

Divided into five parts, this film traces the long strike by workers at the Caravelair caravan factory in Trigniac, near Saint-Nazaire, led by the C.G.T. and C.F.D.T. unions. Shot in 1975, the film achieved the strange feat of being produced entirely by wo ...

Le poisson commande... (1976)

When the three popes of militant film in Brittany, grouped together in the Union of Breton Film Production (UPCB), respond with talent to an order from fishermen's bosses... Le poisson commande includes some very beautiful images of the work at sea, as we ...

Alan Stivell (1976)

Des goûts et des couleurs (1974)

The owner of a luxurious yacht seduces attractive women to deliver them to a black crew member. ...

The Madwoman of Toujane (1974)

This rambling political melodrama tells the story of a French Breton who learns about colonialism while teaching native students in France's colonies of Tunisia and Algeria and returns to his native Brittany to see that the same conditions prevail there. ...

A Human Condition (1974)

Louis Malle's meditative investigation of the inner workings of a French automotive plant. ...

Le Remords (1974)

A filmmaker witnesses an act of racist police violence in Paris. He discusses with a friend whether and how he should make a film out of this. ...

Transmission d'expérience ouvrière (1973)

Report shot with workers laid off from the Hennebont ironworks in Morbihan. Speaking to other working-class communities, they tell the story of how they were cheated by government and management promises. Workers at the L.I.P. plant in the Besançon area b ...

Immigration : Amiens (1973)

Under this title are three reports made in the suburbs of Amiens on immigration in France: 1. Le Droit d'aimer - 10 min 2. In the series Les Cris du pigeonnier supervised by Vautier: Brigitte, José et les autres by Marilise Frasson-Marin 3. ...

La Caravelle (1972)

To Be Twenty in the Aures (1972)

A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the next da ...

Mourir pour des images (1971)

Returns to 'La Mer et les jours' (1958), a film by Alain Kaminker and René Vogel during the filming of which Kaminker disappeared in the sea. ...

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 ...

The Winds of the Aures (1967)

The transformations of the daily life of the Algerian people during the destructive French occupation, then during the war of liberation. While military repression is in full swing, a peasant woman finds herself alone in her mountain home when her only son ...

Dawn of the Damned (1965)

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences derive from the captured French film archives in Algeria containing - unbelievably - masses of French-shot ...

The Death Knell (1964)

At the beginning of the 1960s, in Salisbury (now Harare), in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the government of Ian Smith hanged three black revolutionaries who had nevertheless been pardoned by the Queen of England. René Vautier, with ZAPU (Zimbabwe Afr ...

A People on the March (1963)

In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in images" between the two factions. Together with his students he made a film that shows the history of the Algeri ...

J'ai Huit Ans (1962)

Algerian children, survivors of the war and refugeeing in Tunisian camps, recount the tragic events they have experienced, from drawings they have made themselves. ...

Sawt Echaâb (1961)

"La Voix du Peuple," composed of archival photographs by René Vauthier and others, exposes the root causes of the armed conflict of the Algerian resistance. Participating in a war of real images against French colonial propaganda, these images aimed to sh ...

Our Algeria (1959)

"Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA), is a montage film intended to inform the international community at the UN in 1959 on the objectives pursued by the Algerian resistance during the ...

Algeria in Flames (1958)

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. These war images taken in the Aurès-Nementchas are intended to be the basis of a dialogue between French and Algerians for peace in Algeria, by demonstratin ...

Les Anneaux d'Or (1956)

At the time of Tunisian independence, owners of large boats decide to sell, while many small fishermen soon find themselves without work. Their wives then decide to pool their gold rings to sell them and thus buy boats. ...

Une Nation, l'Algérie (1954)

Un homme est mort (1951)

Film about the death of the worker Édouard Mazé, killed in Brest by the mobile guards, during the demonstrations and strikes of 1951. ...

Afrique 50 (1950)

The first French anti-colonialist film, derived from an assignment in which the director was to document educational activities by the French League of Schooling in West Africa. Vautier later filmed what he actually saw: "a lack of teachers and doctors, th ...

Une certaine histoire du cinéma expérimental français (2019)

Founded in the second half of the 1990s, the experimental film association L'Etna witnessed the transition from film to digital cinema. Its premises, located in the heart of Paris, were unable to withstand gentrification. ...

Histoires d’images, images d’Histoire (2014)

In 1950, in full reconstruction, the workers of Brest went on strike. It will last more than a month and will be bloody. Edouard Mazé, a 26-year-old worker from Brest, will die during the demonstration on April 17, dozens of his comrades will be injured a ...

Commune présence (2008)

Guided by a letter from an childhood friend, a young man visits places and people from the past marked by history and commitment. He then meets other people throughout the night, looking for ways to act and imagine collectively. ...

Algérie Tours Détours (2007)

A documentary road movie with René Vautier In the aftermath of Algeria's independence, René Vautier, a militant filmmaker, considered "the dad" of Algerian cinema, set up the cine-pops. We recreate with him the device of itinerant projections and we tra ...

The Law of Silence (2003)

The Law of Silence, a final-year documentary by Moïra Chappedelaine-Vautier at Femis, examines the 1963 Amnesty Law and the consequences it had on studies of the Algerian War. It brings together interviews conducted in 2002 with Henri Alleg, editor of the ...

René Vautier, le rebelle (2000)

René Vautier, le maquisard à la caméra (2000)

Remise du Collier de l'Hermine à René Vautier (2000)

René Vautier, l'indomptable (1996)

Everything is Ahead (1991)

An adaptation of the novel by the famous soil writer Vasily Belov, raising the problems of the harmful influence of Western civilization on the Russian mentality. ...

Lumières (1989)

Long quest for a director specializing in commissioned films, who after a depression rediscovers his loved ones, his Casbah district, himself. Taken in hand, for a while, by his Islamist neighbor, it is above all the meeting with an old projectionist givin ...

Fort Du Conquet Destruction of the Vautier Archives (1983)

Resistance fighter under the occupation, committed to the FLN during the Algerian war, member of the Medvedkine group after May 1968 and defender of Breton autonomy, René Vautier was a committed filmmaker, author of an anti-colonialist work in which he de ...

The Madwoman of Toujane (1974)

This rambling political melodrama tells the story of a French Breton who learns about colonialism while teaching native students in France's colonies of Tunisia and Algeria and returns to his native Brittany to see that the same conditions prevail there. ...

Le Remords (1974)

A filmmaker witnesses an act of racist police violence in Paris. He discusses with a friend whether and how he should make a film out of this. ...

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 ...

Dawn of the Damned (1965)

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is a film about death. Its most shocking sequences derive from the captured French film archives in Algeria containing - unbelievably - masses of French-shot ...

Les Anneaux d'Or (1956)

At the time of Tunisian independence, owners of large boats decide to sell, while many small fishermen soon find themselves without work. Their wives then decide to pool their gold rings to sell them and thus buy boats. ...

Afrique 50 (1950)

The first French anti-colonialist film, derived from an assignment in which the director was to document educational activities by the French League of Schooling in West Africa. Vautier later filmed what he actually saw: "a lack of teachers and doctors, th ...