Henri de Turenne

Henri de Turenne (19 November 1921 – 23 August 2016) is a French journalist and screenwriter. He was born in Tours. The son of Armand de Turenne, a World War I flying ace, he was raised in Germany and French Algeria, both countries becoming central creative themes in his adult work. After the Second World War, de Turenne worked as a journalist for Agence France-Presse, Le Figaro, France Soir, and ORTF, reporting from Allied-occupied Germany, covering the Korean War and the Algerian War, and, in 1952, winning the Prix Albert Londres. Since the mid-1960s, he worked primarily in television, notably on the French Grandes Batailles series for Pathé, making over a hundred documentaries. He won an Emmy in 1982 for a documentary on the Vietnam War. His fictional works include Les Alsaciens ou les deux Mathilde (1996), made for Arte, for which he shared a 7 d'Or with Michel Deutsch. Source: Article "Henri de Turenne (writer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Works

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.

Release Date1994-03-09

Charactersd Narrator of the tissu documentary (voice)

Vote Count1343

Les Grandes Batailles

Les Grandes Batailles is a series of historical television programs by Daniel Costelle, Jean-Louis Guillaud, and Henri de Turenne, broadcast on French television in the 1960s and 1970s, depicting the major battles of World War II, as well as the Nuremberg Trials. The project for the series actually began with an official government commission for a program on the Battle of Verdun in 1966. Ten other programs about World War II followed. The writers and producers of the series were Henri de Turenne and Jean-Louis Guillaud, both journalists. They entrusted the production of the series to the young director Daniel Costelle.

Release Date1966-09-19

Charactersd Henri de Turenne

Episode Count1

The Sixth Side of the Pentagon

Chris Marker and François Reichenbach document the massive anti–Vietnam War protest held in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 1967, where more than 100,000 demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial before marching on the Pentagon. Filmed amid the crowd, the short captures the tension, idealism, and growing radicalism of the American peace movement.

Release Date1968-08-26

Charactersd Narrator (voice)

Vote Count14

Cinépanorama

Release Date1956-02-04

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Les Grandes batailles du passé

Release Date1973-12-26

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Self

Episode Count[ 3 ]

Vote Count1

Apocalypse: The Second World War

A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.

Release Date2009-09-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count151

Fort Saganne

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.

Release Date1984-05-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count66

The Alsatians or the two Mathilde

The history of four generations of a family in Alsace between 1870 and 1953. Over this time, the family and the villagers live through three wars between France and Germany and their province changes its affiliation between these countries four times. The governors from both sides do not always respect the culture and the feelings of Alsatians.

Release Date1996-10-11

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

L'Algérie des chimères

Through the fictionalized lives of two young Saint-Simonians, this television film presents the history of French colonization in Algeria from 1837 to the end of the Second Empire.

Release Date2001-11-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count1

Le Loup blanc

In the 18th century, the peasants of the forest of Rennes were oppressed by the Regent in the name of taxation. Their lord, the Marquis de Trémi, goes to Paris to denounce these abuses.

Release Date1977-12-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count1

Le Loup blanc

In the 18th century, the peasants of the forest of Rennes were oppressed by the Regent in the name of taxation. Their lord, the Marquis de Trémi, goes to Paris to denounce these abuses.

Release Date1977-11-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

36, le grand tournant

Based on a montage of photographic and cinematographic archives, this documentary evokes, from the demonstrations of February 1934 to the resignation of the government of Léon Blum, passing through the great moments of the Popular Front, the climate of a time when the destiny of France and Europe will switch. The simply edited images are accompanied by a rigorous commentary, mixed with sound documents and texts by famous writers.

Release Date1970-02-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

De l'internationale à la marseillaise

Political history of the 1930s in France.

Release Date1969-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector