DirectorDestins: Général De Bollardière

The exceptional portrait of a pacifist general, the only senior officer to have spoken out against torture. This precious testimony still remains censored in France, since no national channel has to date decided to program this documentary. Son and brother of a soldier, General Pâris de Bollardière was destined for a career in arms. He was, for many years, one of the most brilliant representatives of this adventurer career in France, from Narvik to the Algerian War. After fighting in the French maquis, he reached Indochina, where he suddenly found himself in the aggressor's camps. His beliefs are strongly shaken. But it is in Algeria, where the French army practices torture and summary executions, that he takes the big turn. He expresses his contempt to Massu, and is relieved of his command. Until his death in 1986, Jacques de Bollardière fought for world peace, from the Larzac plateaus to the Mururoa atolls.

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André Gazut, born November 25, 1938 in Firminy (Loire) in France, is a French documentary filmmaker. A trainee reporter-photographer at the monthly Réalités in Paris, he saw, in December 1956, in the photo department, about ten photos of torture taken by a colleague returning from Kabylie. This would mark him and his work for the rest of his life. Non-violent and anti-colonialist, he refused to b…

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Destins: Général De Bollardière

Destins: Général De Bollardière

Chile: Order Work Obedience

Chile: Order Work Obedience

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Pacification en Algérie

Pacification en Algérie

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