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News Items AKA Faits divers (1983) Raymond Depardon
This documentary follows the daily life of a section of the police station of the fifth “arrondissement” (district) of Paris. Read More »
Caught in the Acts AKA Délits flagrants (1994) Raymond Depardon, Michèle Bernard-Requin
This documentary shows a few moments of the life of 14 real persons who have been caught red-handed by the police Read More »
Afriques: Comment ça va avec la douleur? / Africa, How Are You with Pain? (1996) Raymond Depardon, Documentary
Only a microphone on his camera, Raymond Depardon has surveyed Africa from July 1993 to February 1996. Read More »
Reporters (1981) Raymond Depardon, Ursula Andress, Francis Apestéguy, Raymond Barre, Documentary
The documentary traces the at times unrewarding, cynical and difficult world of photographers of the Gamma Photo Agency, founded by Raymond Depardon, the director of the film. Read More »
San Clemente (1982) Raymond Depardon, Sophie Ristelhueber, Documentary
This documentary is about the life of a Venetian psychiatric hospital. The relationships between the doctors, the patients and their families are followed.
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La captive du désert / Captive of the Desert (1990) Raymond Depardon, Sandrine Bonnaire, Dobi Koré, Fadi Taha, Drama
Based on the ordeal of Francoise Claustre, who was taken hostage by the Toubous, a nomadic tribe in the African desert.
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Urgences (1988) Raymond Depardon, Documentary
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 help from the police, but all of them are in need of medical attention.
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Une femme en Afrique / Empty Quarter (1985) Raymond Depardon, Françoise Prenant, Drama, Romance
A man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel in Djibouti because she seems to have some problems. Gradually he falls in love with her. They embark on a trip to the towns in the desert and, on the way, they learn more about each other. The man never appears on screen, so the camera becomes his point of view.
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