Film and television

Long-form investigations, from a time when television took the trouble to explain.

• ORTF, deuxième chaîne1971Le fascisme italien

  October 1971: a two-part investigation for the ORTF's second channel, from Sicily to my meeting with Giorgio Almirante, into the return of neo-fascism in Italy.
• Documentary1973Mururoa et Fangataufa

  In 1973 I filmed on the atolls of Mururoa and Fangataufa, at France's nuclear test site in the Pacific, at a time when the whole world was protesting against the tests.
• Cinéma1973Chung Kuo, la Chine

  In 1973 I lent my voice to the French commentary of Michelangelo Antonioni's great documentary on Mao's China, a film Beijing was soon to condemn.
• France 52002Les Conquistadors du système solaire

  A 52-minute film for France 5 on the robotic exploration of the solar system, born of an idea shared with Claude Lemoine. With André Brahic and Jean-Pierre Haigneré.
• France 22004Ronald Reagan, la mémoire effacée

  A 52-minute documentary on the fortieth President of the United States, produced by Alain Delon and Cyril Viguier and screened in Paris in June 2004.

My reports for the ORTF and TF1 news, from the Vietnam war to St Peter's Square.

• ORTF, deuxième chaîne1969My Lai : l'Amérique découvre un massacre

  November 1969: the American press reveals the My Lai massacre. Newly arrived in television after three years of the Vietnam war, I told the story on the evening news.
• ORTF, deuxième chaîne1970Biafra, le premier reportage après la guerre

  22 January 1970: a week after Biafra's surrender, French television broadcast its first report from the region. I made it with Christian Bousquet.
• ORTF1971-1972Georges Pompidou en Afrique, l'entretien de Lomé

  Gabon, Upper Volta, Togo: I followed President Pompidou's African tours. On 24 November 1972, in Lomé, he gave me an eight-minute interview on France and Africa.
• TF1, journal de 20 h1976Hollywood, la série de l'été

  August 1976: for TF1's evening news I set off for Hollywood. Charlton Heston, Gene Kelly, Linda Blair, Paul Newman: a summer series from the home of the movies.
• TF11978-1980L'affaire Aldo Moro et les années de plomb

  As TF1's correspondent in Rome I covered for the evening news the kidnapping of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades in 1978, then the Bologna station bombing in 1980.
• TF11978L'année des trois papes

  Summer and autumn 1978: two conclaves, three popes in 71 days. From St Peter's Square I reported for TF1 on the election of John Paul I, then of John Paul II.
• TF1, journal de 13 h1980Carnaval de Venise

  February 1980: for Yves Mourousi's lunchtime news I told in six minutes the story of the six days of the Venice Carnival, newly revived after a very long eclipse.
• TF1, journal de 20 h1981Les 20 canaux italiens

  March 1981: sitting in front of a television set, I zapped to show French viewers something they had yet to experience: the jungle of Italian private television.
• TF1, journal de 20 h1981L'attentat contre Jean-Paul II

  13 May 1981, St Peter's Square: the Pope is shot. That evening, on TF1's evening news, I reported from Rome. Ten days later I published my investigation into Ali Agca.

The bulletins I anchored, at a time when the whole of France watched the same news.

• ORTF, deuxième chaîne1969-197224 heures sur la Deux

  From autumn 1969 to September 1972 I anchored the news on the ORTF's second channel, the only one in colour, in the newsroom built by Jacqueline Baudrier.
• ORTF, première chaîne1972-197524 heures sur la Une

  From September 1972 to the end of the ORTF I anchored the first channel's news: Pompidou's death, Giscard's election, and the day the ORTF letters were taken down.
• TF11975-1983IT1 Nuit et les journaux de TF1

  On 6 January 1975 TF1 took over from the ORTF's first channel. I anchored IT1 Nuit, the last bulletin of the evening, summing up the day for the night owls.

When films and series needed a newsreader, they called on me to play myself.

• TF11976Nick Verlaine ou Comment voler la tour Eiffel

  Summer 1976: in this TF1 crime series directed by Claude Boissol, the television newsreader is me. A screen appearance in my own role.
• Cinéma1978Vas-y maman

  In 1978 Nicole de Buron shot her comedy starring Annie Girardot and put me on screen. That same year, in Rome, I was covering two conclaves and the Aldo Moro affair.

After the newsroom, production: prestige films, magazines and programmes made with my own companies.

• Prestige film1988-1994CBP Productions : films d'entreprise et de prestige

  In 1988 I founded my own production company: corporate films, video reports and prestige films for brands, banks and cities, from Center Parcs to Girbaud.
• avocatparis.org2006Le Barreau en Images

  In 2006 I created an online television news programme for the Paris Bar: a monthly video magazine for the twenty thousand lawyers of Paris, produced by my company INBROV.