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René Vautier

René Vautier

Director · Born 1928-01-15 · Camaret-sur-Mer

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Biography

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 comm…

Directed

  1. Afrique 50 (1950) — Director
  2. To Be Twenty in the Aures (1972) — Director
  3. A Human Condition (1974) — Director
  4. A People on the March (1963) — Director
  5. Les Anneaux d'Or (1956) — Director
  6. Quand les femmes ont pris la colère (1977) — Director
  7. Techniquement Si Simple (1971) — Director
  8. The Madwoman of Toujane (1974) — Director
  9. Les Ajoncs (1970) — Director
  10. Quand tu disais, Valéry (1976) — Director
  11. Guerre aux images en Algérie (1985) — Director
  12. À Propos De... L'autre Détail (1985) — Director
  13. Algeria in Flames (1958) — Director
  14. Le Remords (1974) — Director
  15. The Death Knell (1964) — Director
  16. Déjà le sang de mai ensemençait novembre (1982) — Director
  17. Mourir pour des images (1971) — Director
  18. Les Trois Cousins (1970) — Director
  19. Une Nation, l'Algérie (1954) — Director
  20. Marée noire, colère rouge (1978) — Director
  21. Le poisson commande... (1976) — Director
  22. La Caravelle (1972) — Director
  23. Histoires d’images, images d’Histoire (2014) — Director
  24. Fort Du Conquet Destruction of the Vautier Archives (1983) — Director
  25. Frontline (1976) — Director
  26. Un homme est mort (1951) — Director
  27. Entretien avec Pierre Clément (1998) — Director
  28. Transmission d'expérience ouvrière (1973) — Director
  29. Immigration : Amiens (1973) — Director
  30. Ensemble, vivre et travailler (1986) — Director
  31. Vous avez dit Français ? (1987) — Director
  32. Paris pour la paix (1986) — Director
  33. Mission Pacifique (1988) — Director
  34. Hirochirac 1995 (1995) — Director
  35. Alan Stivell (1976) — Director
  36. Carte blanche à Gilles Servat (1977) — Director
  37. Carte blanche à Glenmor (1977) — Director
  38. Le Scorpion de Saint-Nazaire (1980) — Director
  39. Chateaubriand, mémoire vivante (1985) — Director
  40. Tournevache (1985) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Afrique 50 (1950) — Récitant / Narrator
  2. Dawn of the Damned (1965)
  3. Les Anneaux d'Or (1956) — Commentator
  4. The Madwoman of Toujane (1974) — Himself
  5. Les Ajoncs (1970) — Le Policier
  6. The Law of Silence (2003) — Self
  7. Le Remords (1974) — Himself
  8. René Vautier, le rebelle (2000) — Self
  9. René Vautier, le maquisard à la caméra (2000) — Self
  10. Algérie Tours Détours (2007) — Himself
  11. Fort Du Conquet Destruction of the Vautier Archives (1983) — Self
  12. Histoires d’images, images d’Histoire (2014) — Self
  13. René Vautier, l'indomptable (1996) — himself
  14. Everything is Ahead (1991)
  15. Lumières (1989) — L'animateur des Ciné Pops
  16. Marée noire, colère rouge — Réalisateur
  17. Commune présence (2008) — (voice)
  18. Four Days of a Partisan (1975)
  19. The Battle of Production (1998) — Self
  20. Le Dur Désir de dire (1981) — himself
  21. Mohamed Chouikh, Algérie mon Amour (2008) — Self
  22. Remise du Collier de l'Hermine à René Vautier (2000) — himself
  23. Une certaine histoire du cinéma expérimental français (2019) — Lui-même
  24. Antoine Bonfanti, sonic traces of an engaged listening (2002) — Self
  25. Carottage (2013) — self