Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

Nov 6, 2015

1h 39m

★ 6.0

Celebrate 40 years of "Apostrophes"

Overview

Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Cinétévé

CNC

TV5 Monde

France Télévisions

INA

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Cast

Self

Bernard Pivot

Self

Pierre Assouline

Self (archive footage)

Roland Topor

Self (archive footage)

Françoise Sagan

Self (archive footage)

Gabriel Matzneff

Self (archive footage)

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Self (archive footage)

Patrick Modiano

Self (archive footage)

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Self (archive footage)

Marguerite Yourcenar

Self (archive footage)

François Mitterrand

Self (archive footage)

Marguerite Duras

Self (archive footage)

Daniel Cohn-Bendit

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