Raymond Depardon

Raymond Depardon

Raymond Depardon is a photographer, a journalist and a filmmaker, but, above all, his eyes view humans with compassion. He respects others and is kind with the reality of their lives. He was born into a family of farmers in 1942 in Burgundy and went to Paris in 1958, wishing to be a photographer. He was first taken on as a messenger in an agency and was sent to take photos of an opening-night at the cinema: the movie was none other than Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless. He finally established his own agency, Gamma, together with three reporters, in 1966 'not for money but for the freedom'. He suggested to set up a cinema department: 'we bought an Eclair- camera and tried to make news-films for television in addition to taking news-photograhs... It was then that I learned to hold the camera." When Depardon films people, he is silent. If one has the impression that he always keeps his eyes lowered in the face of the world's miseries, it is untrue. Raymond Depardon looks as through a lattice and reacts like quicksilver, keeping his deepest, innermost emotion secret, and allow his pictures to speak for themselves. His films are now screened in all international film festivals, from Cannes to Hong Kong.

  • Title: Raymond Depardon
  • Popularity: 3.564
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1942-07-06
  • Place of Birth: Villefranche-sur-Saône
  • Homepage: https://www.palmeraieetdesert.fr
  • Also Known As:
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Raymond Depardon Movies

  • 2012
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    Journal de France

    Journal de France

    6.778 2012 HD

    A journal, a voyage through time. He photographs France, she rediscovers the unseen footage he has so carefully kept: his first steps behind the...

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  • 1986
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    New York, N.Y.

    New York, N.Y.

    6.4 1986 HD

    It is slow, succinct and absolutely riveting. With his photojournalist's eye, and simple but inspired camera work, Depardon plunges us into both the...

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  • 2023
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    L'Âge d'or de la pub

    L'Âge d'or de la pub

    6.4 2023 HD

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  • 2005
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    Profils paysans: le quotidien

    Profils paysans: le quotidien

    7.6 2005 HD

    Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: La vie moderne...

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  • 2001
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    Profils paysans: l'approche

    Profils paysans: l'approche

    7.5 2001 HD

    The first of a documentary serie about rural France.

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  • 2008
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    Modern Life

    Modern Life

    7.6 2008 HD

    For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding...

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  • 2008
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    Donner la parole

    Donner la parole

    5 2008 HD

    Documentary Short

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  • 1983
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    Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon

    Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon

    1 1983 HD

    A fortuitous meeting, late one afternoon, in the garden of the Tuileries, of one or two cameras, a tape recorder, and three cameramen/directors,...

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  • 2005
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    Quoi de neuf au Garet?

    Quoi de neuf au Garet?

    7 2005 HD

    The Garet farm is for sale. Brothers Jean and Raymond Depardon chat about the past and the future of the farm.

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  • 2013
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    Un Moment Si Doux

    Un Moment Si Doux

    1 2013 HD

    In lights and colors, Raymond Depardon photographs according to his desires. He retraces his steps, wanders around the places he loves or discovers:...

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  • 2002
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    Untouched by the West

    Untouched by the West

    6.8 2002 HD

    Loosely based on Diégo Brosset’s novel, set in the Sahara at the beginning of the twentieth century. A man of the desert is adopted by...

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  • 2011
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    La rouge et la noire

    La rouge et la noire

    1 2011 HD

    Carrying on Luc Moullets unfinished screenplay about the theft of la pénélope, a camera created by Aaton and capable of recording...

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  • 1990
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    Incognito

    Incognito

    1 1990 HD

    An almost blind writer moves to a hidden property in an Alpine village with a female friend, Renata. The two play sado-masochistic games including...

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  • 2008
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    Modern Life

    Modern Life

    7.6 2008 HD

    For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding...

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  • 2007
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    To Each His Own Cinema

    To Each His Own Cinema

    6.5 2007 HD

    Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

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  • 2005
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    Profils paysans: le quotidien

    Profils paysans: le quotidien

    7.6 2005 HD

    Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: La vie moderne...

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  • 1994
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    Délits flagrants

    Délits flagrants

    6.7 1994 HD

    This documentary is a collection of footage of 14 suspects being 'interviewed' by the deputy public prosecutors.

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  • 2001
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    Profils paysans: l'approche

    Profils paysans: l'approche

    7.5 2001 HD

    The first of a documentary serie about rural France.

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  • 2002
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    1974, une partie de campagne

    1974, une partie de campagne

    6.4 2002 HD

    Following the 1974 French presidential campaign with Valery Gicard d'Estaing

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  • 1995
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    Lumière and Company

    Lumière and Company

    6.25 1995 HD

    40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

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  • 1991
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    Against Oblivion

    Against Oblivion

    6.5 1991 HD

    Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea...

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  • 1986
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    New York, N.Y.

    New York, N.Y.

    6.4 1986 HD

    It is slow, succinct and absolutely riveting. With his photojournalist's eye, and simple but inspired camera work, Depardon plunges us into both the...

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  • 2004
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    The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial

    The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial

    7.3 2004 HD

    The proceedings of a Paris courtroom are the grist for this documentary. Drawn from over 200 appearances before the same female judge, the director...

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  • 2012
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    Journal de France

    Journal de France

    6.778 2012 HD

    A journal, a voyage through time. He photographs France, she rediscovers the unseen footage he has so carefully kept: his first steps behind the...

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  • 1986
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    New York, N.Y.

    New York, N.Y.

    6.4 1986 HD

    It is slow, succinct and absolutely riveting. With his photojournalist's eye, and simple but inspired camera work, Depardon plunges us into both the...

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  • 1980
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    Ten Minutes of Silence for John Lennon

    Ten Minutes of Silence for John Lennon

    6.7 1980 HD

    The documentary is about the ceremony dedicated by American people to John Lennon after his murder. The 10 minutes of silence in New York's Central...

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  • 1983
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    News Items

    News Items

    6.7 1983 HD

    This documentary follows the daily life of a section of the police station of the fifth "arrondissement" (district) of Paris.

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  • 2022
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    Feminist Riposte

    Feminist Riposte

    7 2022 HD

    Documentary that follows the movement of the collage makers throughout France.

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  • 1984
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    The Declic Years

    The Declic Years

    6.5 1984 HD

    This documentary is an autobiography based on director Depardon's voice, his face and pictures from his childhood which are all mixed together on...

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  • 1985
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    Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa

    Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa

    7.2 1985 HD

    A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.

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  • 1985
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    Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa

    Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa

    7.2 1985 HD

    A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.

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  • 1985
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    Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa

    Empty Quarter: A Woman in Africa

    7.2 1985 HD

    A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.

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  • 1990
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    Captive of the Desert

    Captive of the Desert

    5.6 1990 HD

    A European researcher is abducted by some ill-educated rebels in a North African country. Their reasons are unclear...

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  • 1996
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    Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?

    Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?

    5.8 1996 HD

    Miscellaneous images of African life.

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  • 1998
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    Paris

    Paris

    5.625 1998 HD

    Utilizing a combination of professional actors and man-on-the-street interviews, French director Raymond Depardon has created a film about filmmaking...

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  • 1981
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    Reporters

    Reporters

    6.9 1981 HD

    The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photographers in Paris and their subjects by following...

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  • 2002
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    Untouched by the West

    Untouched by the West

    6.8 2002 HD

    Loosely based on Diégo Brosset’s novel, set in the Sahara at the beginning of the twentieth century. A man of the desert is adopted by...

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  • 1970
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    Les Révolutionnaires du Tchad

    Les Révolutionnaires du Tchad

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1990
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    Captive of the Desert

    Captive of the Desert

    5.6 1990 HD

    A European researcher is abducted by some ill-educated rebels in a North African country. Their reasons are unclear...

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  • 1988
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    Urgences

    Urgences

    6.4 1988 HD

    A documentary filmed in the psychiatric ward of the Motel Dieu at a large hospital in Paris. The patients arrive on their own, or with considerable...

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  • 1999
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    Muriel Leferle

    Muriel Leferle

    5 1999 HD

    Muriel Leferle is 22-years-old, a convicted felon, HIV-positive, and can talk her way out of nearly anything. Filmmaker Raymond Depardon first...

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  • 1982
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    San Clemente

    San Clemente

    6.4 1982 HD

    This documentary is about the life of a Venetian psychiatric hospital. The relationships between the doctors, the patients and their families are...

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  • 2016
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    Les habitants

    Les habitants

    5.929 2016 HD

    Raymond Depardon sets out to meet French people to listen to them tell their tales. From Charleville-Mézières to Nice, Sète to...

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  • 1981
    imgMovies

    Reporters

    Reporters

    6.9 1981 HD

    The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photographers in Paris and their subjects by following...

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  • 1981
    imgMovies

    Reporters

    Reporters

    6.9 1981 HD

    The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photographers in Paris and their subjects by following...

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  • 1995
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    Concerning Nice

    Concerning Nice

    5.1 1995 HD

    Anthology of short films about the French city of Nice, by various directors. A homage to Jean Vigo and his "À propos de Nice" from 1930.

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  • 1976
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    Tibesti Too

    Tibesti Too

    5 1976 HD

    This documentary draws a sensitive, unsensational portrait of the desert and the people who inhabit it, the Toubous.

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  • 1976
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    Tibesti Too

    Tibesti Too

    5 1976 HD

    This documentary draws a sensitive, unsensational portrait of the desert and the people who inhabit it, the Toubous.

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  • 1976
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    Tibesti Too

    Tibesti Too

    5 1976 HD

    This documentary draws a sensitive, unsensational portrait of the desert and the people who inhabit it, the Toubous.

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  • 2008
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    Donner la parole

    Donner la parole

    5 2008 HD

    Documentary Short

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  • 2008
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    Modern Life

    Modern Life

    7.6 2008 HD

    For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding...

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  • 1969
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    Jan Palach

    Jan Palach

    5.2 1969 HD

    For his directing debut Ian Palach, Raymond Depardon, photographer and co-founder of photo agencies Gamma and Magnum, travelled to Prague in 1968....

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  • 1996
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    Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?

    Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?

    5.8 1996 HD

    Miscellaneous images of African life.

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  • 1996
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    Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?

    Afriques : comment ça va avec la douleur ?

    5.8 1996 HD

    Miscellaneous images of African life.

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  • 2017
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    12 Days

    12 Days

    7.2 2017 HD

    A new documentary by filmmaker-photographer Raymond Depardon – where justice and psychiatry meet.

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  • 1990
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    Contacts

    Contacts

    6 1990 HD

    Short film of Raymond Depardon

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  • 1994
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    Sida propos (ou Paroles d'appelés)

    Sida propos (ou Paroles d'appelés)

    5 1994 HD

    In the context of the World Aids Day on the 1st December 1994, the French Ministry of Defence commissioned the producer Raymond DEPARDON to make a...

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  • 2014
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    The 8th Floor

    The 8th Floor

    1 2014 HD

    On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon's film features a minute of silence with eight artists and scientists: David...

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  • 2011
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    The Joy of Maths

    The Joy of Maths

    1 2011 HD

    The film allows mathematicians involved in the creation of the exhibition to express themselves in their own words and includes Sir Michael Atiyah,...

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  • 1996
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    Malraux

    Malraux

    1 1996 HD

    Film about writer Malraux, with photographs portraying great moments of his life and accompanied by his most famous speeches.

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  • 1996
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    Malraux

    Malraux

    1 1996 HD

    Film about writer Malraux, with photographs portraying great moments of his life and accompanied by his most famous speeches.

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  • 2001
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    Profils paysans: l'approche

    Profils paysans: l'approche

    7.5 2001 HD

    The first of a documentary serie about rural France.

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  • 1997
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    Amour

    Amour

    6.5 1997 HD

    Using a rostrum camera, Raymond Depardon films a long series of photos, from the narrow streets of Paris to the endless desert, accompanied by...

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  • 1993
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    Face à la mer

    Face à la mer

    1 1993 HD

    Raymond Depardon had photographed the city of Beirut before it was destroyed and rebuilt. He films a long take of his photographs, like a circular...

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  • 1980
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    Ten Minutes of Silence for John Lennon

    Ten Minutes of Silence for John Lennon

    6.7 1980 HD

    The documentary is about the ceremony dedicated by American people to John Lennon after his murder. The 10 minutes of silence in New York's Central...

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  • 2005
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    Profils paysans: le quotidien

    Profils paysans: le quotidien

    7.6 2005 HD

    Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: La vie moderne...

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  • 2005
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    Profils paysans: le quotidien

    Profils paysans: le quotidien

    7.6 2005 HD

    Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: La vie moderne...

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  • 2008
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    Modern Life

    Modern Life

    7.6 2008 HD

    For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding...

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  • 2005
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    Quoi de neuf au Garet?

    Quoi de neuf au Garet?

    7 2005 HD

    The Garet farm is for sale. Brothers Jean and Raymond Depardon chat about the past and the future of the farm.

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  • 2005
    imgMovies

    Quoi de neuf au Garet?

    Quoi de neuf au Garet?

    7 2005 HD

    The Garet farm is for sale. Brothers Jean and Raymond Depardon chat about the past and the future of the farm.

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  • 1998
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    Bolivia

    Bolivia

    1 1998 HD

    Photography trip to Bolivia filmed with a rostrum camera and edited with original sounds from the country.

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  • 2002
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    Untouched by the West

    Untouched by the West

    6.8 2002 HD

    Loosely based on Diégo Brosset’s novel, set in the Sahara at the beginning of the twentieth century. A man of the desert is adopted by...

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  • 2002
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    Untouched by the West

    Untouched by the West

    6.8 2002 HD

    Loosely based on Diégo Brosset’s novel, set in the Sahara at the beginning of the twentieth century. A man of the desert is adopted by...

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  • 2017
    imgMovies

    12 Days

    12 Days

    7.2 2017 HD

    A new documentary by filmmaker-photographer Raymond Depardon – where justice and psychiatry meet.

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  • 1981
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    Numéros zéro

    Numéros zéro

    6 1981 HD

    On the eve of the publication of the zero issue of the daily newspaper "Le Matin de Paris", we dive into the heart of an editorial staff in turmoil,...

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  • 1970
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    Chasseurs et Chamans

    Chasseurs et Chamans

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2002
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    1974, une partie de campagne

    1974, une partie de campagne

    6.4 2002 HD

    Following the 1974 French presidential campaign with Valery Gicard d'Estaing

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  • 1976
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    Tchad 3

    Tchad 3

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1970
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    Tchad 1 : L'Embuscade

    Tchad 1 : L'Embuscade

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1976
    imgMovies

    Tchad 3

    Tchad 3

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1970
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    Tchad 1 : L'Embuscade

    Tchad 1 : L'Embuscade

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1975
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    Tchad 2 : L'Ultimatum

    Tchad 2 : L'Ultimatum

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1989
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    Une histoire très simple

    Une histoire très simple

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1989
    imgMovies

    Une histoire très simple

    Une histoire très simple

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1975
    imgMovies

    Tchad 2 : L'Ultimatum

    Tchad 2 : L'Ultimatum

    1 1975 HD

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