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
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Afrique 50 (1950) — Director
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To Be Twenty in the Aures (1972) — Director
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A Human Condition (1974) — Director
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A People on the March (1963) — Director
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Les Anneaux d'Or (1956) — Director
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Quand les femmes ont pris la colère (1977) — Director
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Techniquement Si Simple (1971) — Director
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The Madwoman of Toujane (1974) — Director
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Les Ajoncs (1970) — Director
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Quand tu disais, Valéry (1976) — Director
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Guerre aux images en Algérie (1985) — Director
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À Propos De... L'autre Détail (1985) — Director
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Algeria in Flames (1958) — Director
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Le Remords (1974) — Director
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The Death Knell (1964) — Director
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Déjà le sang de mai ensemençait novembre (1982) — Director
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Mourir pour des images (1971) — Director
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Les Trois Cousins (1970) — Director
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Une Nation, l'Algérie (1954) — Director
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Marée noire, colère rouge (1978) — Director
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Le poisson commande... (1976) — Director
- La Caravelle (1972) — Director
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Histoires d’images, images d’Histoire (2014) — Director
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Fort Du Conquet Destruction of the Vautier Archives (1983) — Director
- Frontline (1976) — Director
- Un homme est mort (1951) — Director
- Entretien avec Pierre Clément (1998) — Director
- Transmission d'expérience ouvrière (1973) — Director
- Immigration : Amiens (1973) — Director
- Ensemble, vivre et travailler (1986) — Director
- Vous avez dit Français ? (1987) — Director
- Paris pour la paix (1986) — Director
- Mission Pacifique (1988) — Director
- Hirochirac 1995 (1995) — Director
- Alan Stivell (1976) — Director
- Carte blanche à Gilles Servat (1977) — Director
- Carte blanche à Glenmor (1977) — Director
- Le Scorpion de Saint-Nazaire (1980) — Director
- Chateaubriand, mémoire vivante (1985) — Director
- Tournevache (1985) — Director
Also appeared in
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Afrique 50 (1950) — Récitant / Narrator
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Dawn of the Damned (1965)
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Les Anneaux d'Or (1956) — Commentator
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The Madwoman of Toujane (1974) — Himself
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Les Ajoncs (1970) — Le Policier
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The Law of Silence (2003) — Self
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Le Remords (1974) — Himself
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René Vautier, le rebelle (2000) — Self
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René Vautier, le maquisard à la caméra (2000) — Self
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Algérie Tours Détours (2007) — Himself
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Fort Du Conquet Destruction of the Vautier Archives (1983) — Self
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Histoires d’images, images d’Histoire (2014) — Self
- René Vautier, l'indomptable (1996) — himself
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Everything is Ahead (1991)
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Lumières (1989) — L'animateur des Ciné Pops
- Marée noire, colère rouge — Réalisateur
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Commune présence (2008) — (voice)
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Four Days of a Partisan (1975)
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The Battle of Production (1998) — Self
- Le Dur Désir de dire (1981) — himself
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Mohamed Chouikh, Algérie mon Amour (2008) — Self
- Remise du Collier de l'Hermine à René Vautier (2000) — himself
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Une certaine histoire du cinéma expérimental français (2019) — Lui-même
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Antoine Bonfanti, sonic traces of an engaged listening (2002) — Self
- Carottage (2013) — self