Catalogue des films de « Pierre Desfons »

The city of Berlin is a beacon, a testimony to the history of these failures, these successes, the to-ing and fro-ing, the hopes, the fears. Here, in 1945, the "clean slate" of the destroyed city gave the allies the opportunity to reach an...

1956-1980. The passing of the charismatic figures in the spirit of Zola, Barrès and Gide, Camus, Mauriac, Malraux, Sartre, Aron. Before their deaths, these magnificent intellectuals grappled with the decline of the great political illusions, the...

Since 1980, we have been witnessing the downfall of prophets, messiahs and guides. Intellectuals have become the main players in the public debate, taking a more active role in experiments and struggles, and setting aside the abstractions of ideas...

Some people have extraordinary destinies. One of them is Maurice Thorez, a worker from the North who, in a sense, met History. A miner, he remained attached to the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. He lived in his "country" from 1900 to 1928. When he...

Un portrait de l'écrivain belge Georges Simenon, installé à Paris en 1922. Ponctué de quelques repères bibliographiques, ce film est essentiellement composé d'images d'archives dans lesquelles Simenon, grand conteur, analyse son parcours...

Nicknamed "Père la Victoire", Clémenceau was that upright, victorious Republican who became a mythical figure in the history of the 20th century before Charles de Gaulle. From his birth in Vendée in 1841 to his death in 1929, Clémenceau was a...

This three-part document takes us from "the painted cave to the church, from the church to the museum, then from the museum to the screen" in a "history of looking" created after the book by Régis Debray "The Life and Death of the image, a...

Histoire comparée de Paris et Berlin depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, à travers l'évolution des deux villes en matière d'architecture et d'urbanisme. Composé d'interviews d'architectes et d'images de projets et centres urbains...

The thread of this documentary is the relationship between man and woman. It is an inventory of the vicissitudes of male identity after the fluctuations of the last 25-30 years. A film which speaks of man an woman seen from the especial search...

Filmé dans ses différents appartements et entouré de mannequins dans ses ateliers parisiens, le couturier Karl Lagerfeld répond aux questions d'une journaliste, évoquant sa carrière, ses méthodes de travail et ses passions. Illustré...