René Vautier

René Vautier

Born: January 15, 1928
Died: January 4, 2015
in Camaret-sur-Mer
René Vautier, born January 15, 1928 in Camaret-sur-Mer (Finistère) and died January 4, 2015 in Cancale (Ille-et-Vilaine), is a French director and screenwriter, communist and anticolonialist, particularly known for his film Have twenty years in the Aurès.

Born to a factory worker father and a teacher mother, René Vautier carried out his first militant activity within the Resistance in Brittany in 1943, when he was fifteen years old, which earned him several decorations. He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre at the age of sixteen, responsible for the “youth” group of the René Madec clan, cited in the Order of the Nation by General Charles de Gaulle for acts of Resistance (1944). René Vautier joins the maquis in France then takes the IDHEC competition under the leadership of his comrades in combat. From then on, this fierce supporter of the Communist Party will never stop, camera in hand, campaigning in Algeria, Africa or Brittany in order to denounce the contradictions of the systems in place.

If he spoke about social struggles in France (Quand tu dit Valery), the condition of women (Quand les Femmes ont la anger) or Africa (Afrique 50), René Vautier is best known for his commitment against the abuses of the French army during the Algerian War. Thus, Being 20 years old in the Aurès represents one of his major works. His work, specifies the Arab HUFFINGTON POST, is today part of the historical heritage of Algeria, where he is considered a Mujahid, understand an independence fighter.

A rebellious and prolific filmmaker, René Vautier experienced the wrath of censorship on numerous occasions. Imprisonments, hunger strikes, but also numerous awards have regularly punctuated the career of this atypical activist artist.

Movies for René Vautier...

Une certaine histoire du cinéma expérimental français
Title: Une certaine histoire du cinéma expérimental français
Character: Lui-même
Released: February 7, 2019
Type: Movie
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Histoires d’images, images d’Histoire
Title: Histoires d’images, images d’Histoire
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
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 and one of them, Pierre Cauzien, will be amputated five days later. The city is under siege. René Vautier, a 20-year-old filmmaker, goes clandestinely to Brest, at the call of the CGT, to shoot a film on the reasons for anger. The trace of these events is now tenuous and carried by witnesses whose words are gradually dying out. This film proposes to find the traces of these events, to collect the words of the witnesses, to search their personal archives, to exhume the forgotten photograms, to open the official files hitherto protected, to delve into the depths of individual memories to understand. In 1950, a man died... But who still remembers?
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Commune présence
Title: Commune présence
Character: (voice)
Released: July 1, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Algérie Tours Détours
Title: Algérie Tours Détours
Character: Himself
Released: November 11, 2007
Type: Movie
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 travel the country in ciné-bus (Algiers, Béjaïa, Tizi Ouzou, Tébessa) to hear the voices of the spectators on the political situation, youth and living conditions of men and Of women today.
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La loi du silence
Title: La loi du silence
Character: Self
Released: October 10, 2003
Type: Movie
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René Vautier, le rebelle
Title: René Vautier, le rebelle
Character: Self
Released: April 29, 2000
Type: Movie
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René Vautier, le maquisard à la caméra
Title: René Vautier, le maquisard à la caméra
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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René Vautier, l'indomptable
Title: René Vautier, l'indomptable
Character: himself
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Fort Du Conquet Destruction of the Vautier Archives
Title: Fort Du Conquet Destruction of the Vautier Archives
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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 denounces the repression, torture and racism. In 1983, René Vautier discovered, by the light of a flashlight, his films cut up and scattered at Fort du Conquet. Police also came to check the damage.
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The Madwoman of Toujane
Title: The Madwoman of Toujane
Character: Himself
Released: May 15, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Le Remords
Title: Le Remords
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Les Trois Cousins
Title: Les Trois Cousins
Released: March 4, 1970
Type: Movie
A documentary short about immigrants who come to work in France.
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Les Ajoncs
Title: Les Ajoncs
Released: February 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Comedic documentary about an Algerian who decides to settle in a small town, Douarnenez in Brittany. The title means "The Gorses", a plant that is prevalent in Brittany.
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Dawn of the Damned
Title: Dawn of the Damned
Released: July 5, 1965
Type: Movie
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 documentary footage of their tortures, massacres and executions of Algerians. The real death of children, passers-by, resistance fighters, one after the other, becomes unbearable. Rather than be blatant propaganda, the film convinces entirely by its visual evidence, constituting an object lesson for revolutionary cinema.
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Les Anneaux d'Or
Title: Les Anneaux d'Or
Character: Commentator
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
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.
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Afrique 50
Title: Afrique 50
Character: Récitant / Narrator
Released: December 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Afrique 50 is a 1950 French documentary film directed by René Vautier. The first French anti-colonialist film, the film derived from an assignment in which the director was to cover educational activities by the French League of Schooling in West Africa. Vautier later filmed what he saw, a "lack of teachers and doctors, the crimes committed by the French Army in the name of France, the instrumentalization of the colonized peoples". For his role in the film Vautier was imprisoned over several months. The film was not permitted to be shown for more than 40 years.
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Marée noire, colère rouge
Title: Marée noire, colère rouge
Character: Réalisateur
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie