Françoise Verny (Writer)

In Praise of Love

Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.

Release Date2001-05-16

Charactersd Grandmother

Vote Count42

Sacrée Soirée

Release Date1987-09-02

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

La Valise en carton

From her childhood in Alentejo to her career as a singer, Linda de Suza recounts her life, in a Portugal marked by the Salazar dictatorship, with her family and in particular her mother, before fleeing to France as an adult.

Release Date1988-04-08

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

Le sagouin

In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a life of anguish and sadness in a sinister castle. He exasperates his mother who sees in him only the hated reflection of a husband she only married to become a baroness. Thanks to the kindness of the village teacher, Guillou glimpses for a moment the existence of another world, of gentleness and tenderness.

Release Date1972-01-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Les Cent Livres des Hommes

Les Cent Livres des Hommes (ORTF, 1969-1973) was a series of literary programs created by Claude Santelli and Françoise Verny, and produced notably by Santelli, Jean Archimbaud, and Serge Moati. Planned for one hundred episodes but completed at thirty-nine, the series aimed to introduce great literary works, 'chefs-d’œuvre', to a younger audience through a mix of dramatization, reading, and documentary techniques. It marked a transfer of cultural legitimacy from writers and critics to a generation of television producers, offering a new model of educational and creative literary broadcasting - 'télévision d’auteur'.

Release Date1970-06-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count1

Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs

After a confinement in a harem, an illiterate Algerian takes her revenge by reinventing herself as a writer. Under the name of Elissa Rhaïs, she becomes the darling of the literary Paris of the inter-war period, in search of oriental fantasies.

Release Date1993-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

L'Arme au bleu

Release Date1981-09-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

La Chambre des dames

French miniseries based on the novels by Jeanne Bourin.

Release Date1983-12-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

Golden Night

After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and sets about getting revenge on his family members. He sends each one a voodoo doll, warning of their fate. Wandering over the streets of Paris, Michel is the haunted and hunted, as he himself hunts his villainous kin.

Release Date1976-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count10

Nous ne l'avons pas assez aimée

Release Date1980-11-18

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Adios

Miniseries based upon the autobiographical novel by sport jounalist Kléber Haedens.

Release Date1976-09-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count3

The Hundred Books: Alice in Wonderland

"This book is a descent into the soul of a child." On November 26th, 1865, Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was published. In this 1973 broadcast, we discover the genesis of this "masterpiece of the absurd" and delve into the depths of a child's soul, thanks to Jean Gattegno's fascinating analysis. As a bonus, Claude Rich reads us an excerpt from Alice's adventures.

Release Date1973-12-28

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer