Mayday
2003 · Documentary · Drama
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TV series / 1996
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
Episode directors
Maurice Dugowson
The behind-the-scenes story of French television… This documentary unveils the lesser-known history of two audiovisual decades that have shaped today's television. To explain from the break up of the French broadcasting service ORTF, in 1974, to the creation of Arte, via the birth of Canal+, the life and death of La Cinq and the privatization of TF1 — the succession of political, economic and cultural decisions that have shaped what is known as the “PAF” …
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The behind-the-scenes story of French television… This documentary unveils the lesser-known history of two audiovisual decades that have shaped today's television. To explain from the break up of the French broadcasting service ORTF, in 1974, to the creation of Arte, via the birth of Canal+, the life and death of La Cinq and the privatization of TF1 — the succession of political, economic and cultural decisions that have shaped what is known as the “PAF” (French Audiovisual Landscape).
Cast
Jean-Claude DauphinNarrator (voice)
Jean-Luc LagardèreSelf
Hervé BourgesSelf
André RousseletSelf · Self (archive footage)
Philippe RamondSelf
Jack LangSelf
Jérôme ClémentSelf
Jean-Pierre ElkabbachSelf
Georges FillioudSelf
Bernard MiyetSelf
Jacques ChiracSelf (archive footage)
Pierre LescureSelf (archive footage)
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José FrèchesSelf
Michèle CottaSelf
Yves SabouretSelf
Patrick Le LaySelf
Catherine TascaSelf
Jean DruckerSelf (archive footage) · Self
Robert HersantSelf · Self (archive footage)
Carlo FrecceroSelf
Silvio BerlusconiSelf (archive footage)
Jacques RigaudSelf
Jérôme SeydouxSelf
Pierre MauroySelf (archive footage)
Georges PompidouSelf (archive footage)
Xavier Gouyou-BeauchampsSelf
Valéry Giscard d'EstaingSelf (archive footage)
Janine Langlois-GlandierSelf
François MitterrandSelf (archive footage)
Jean FrydmanSelf
Frédéric ChapusSelf
Robert BlockSelf
Antoine LefébureSelf
Léo ScheerSelf
Jacques DriencourtSelf
Jacques PomontiSelf
Patrick ClémentSelf
Jean RiboudSelf (archive footage)
Jean-Denis BredinSelf (archive footage)
Alain MadelinSelf (archive footage)
Maurice LévySelf
Charles PasquaSelf (archive footage)
Michel PéricardSelf (archive footage)
Laurent FabiusSelf (archive footage)
Bertrand TavernierSelf (archive footage)
Paul AmarSelf (archive footage)
François LéotardSelf (archive footage)
Gabriel de BroglieSelf (archive footage)
Francis BouyguesSelf (archive footage)
Patrick SabatierSelf (archive footage)
Michel PolacSelf (archive footage)
Stéphane CollaroSelf (archive footage)
Pascal JosèpheSelf
Jacques BoutetSelf
Georges KiejmanSelf
Roland FaureSelf
Philippe GuilhaumeSelf (archive footage)
Marcel JullianSelf
Angelo CodignoniSelf (archive footage)
Alain CarignonSelf (archive footage)
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