René Vautier

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-01-15 (87 years old)

Deathday

2015-01-04

Place of Birth

Camaret-sur-Mer

René Vautier

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...

Production

1950

Afrique 50

as Director

1961

J'ai Huit Ans

as Writer

1961

J'ai Huit Ans

as Supervising Art Director

1967

The Winds of the Aures

as Production Manager

1954

1976

1958

1972

La Caravelle

as Director

1950

Afrique 50

as Producer

1950

Afrique 50

as Editor

1950

Afrique 50

as Writer

1963

1974

Le Remords

as Director

1956

Les Anneaux d'Or

as Director

1958

1958

1958

1964

1964

The Death Knell

as Producer

1970

Les Ajoncs

as Writer

1970

1951

1973

1976

Alan Stivell

as Director

1985

Tournevache

as Director

1986

1988

1990

Mys et Thienot

as Director

1995

Hirochirac 1995

as Director

1984

1964

The Death Knell

as Director

1976

Frontline

as Director

1971

1974

1965

1970

Les Ajoncs

as Director

1970

1974

The Madwoman of Toujane

as Director of Photography

1996

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

as Director of Photography

1961

Sawt Echaâb

as Director of Photography

1959

Our Algeria

as Director of Photography

1950

Afrique 50

as Director of Photography

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