Patrick Rotman (Writer)

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Works

The Conquest

A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.

Release Date2011-05-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Présentateur TV

Vote Count98

François Mitterrand : le roman du pouvoir

Jean Lacouture and Patrick Rotman interview the witnesses of François Mitterrand's life. Their testimonies, which both complement and contradict each other, write the story of a life: the youth, the Vichy regime and the Resistance during the Second World War, the Fifth Republic and the Algerian war, the conquest of the Elysée, the backstage of power and the secrets of a president.

Release Date2000-10-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Narrator (voice)

Episode Count4

Vote Count1

The Undeclared War

Documentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.

Release Date1992-02-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Self - Interviewer

Vote Count5

Apostrophes

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

Release Date1975-01-10

Charactersd Self

Episode Count5

Vote Count3

Infrarouge

French current affair show

Release Date2006-02-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count5

La Case du siècle

A French current affairs show.

Release Date2010-09-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count3

Intimate Enemies

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

Release Date2007-10-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count83

Dark Night, October 17, 1961

Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the FLN and its supporters adopted the tactic of murdering French policemen in hopes of forcing a withdrawal. When French law enforcement retaliated by brutalizing Algerians and imposing a strict curfew, the FLN organizes a peaceful demonstration that drew over 11,000 supporters, resulting in an order from the Paris police chief to take brutal countermeasures. Told through the eyes of both French policemen as well as Algerian protestors, Tasma’s film attempts to get to the root of the tragedy by presenting both sides of the story.

Release Date2005-06-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count10

Gulag, the Story

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, remains largely unknown.

Release Date2020-02-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count14

Being President

For the very first time and in complete exclusivity, Patrick Rotman films the daily work of french President François Hollande. Through an essential mise-en-scène, the film penetrates and reveals the core of the Elysée Palace.

Release Date2013-05-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women were affected by this political system, one of the most unjust and bloodiest in history. Using newly discovered propaganda films and archival photos, these four episodes explore the mysteries of this totalitarian political machine that lured its share of important followers into the fold. Known as the red church, communism seduced its ardent followers like some earthly religion.

Release Date1999-10-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

Jacques Chirac, du jeune loup au vieux lion

Release Date2006-10-23

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

68

From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to Prague, a wave of protests shook the world. 68 looks back at the looks back at the Vietnam War, the Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion, the Paris riots, Dubcek, Che Guevara, De Gaulle, Cohn-Bendrik and more. A dive into the chaos of a turbulent year, featuring fantastic colour footage and the music of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrisson and Bob Dylan.

Release Date2012-09-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Chirac

Faced with President François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac embodied the opposition. In 1986, the right won the legislative elections and he became Prime Minister. After two years of tough cohabitation, François Mitterrand was re-elected in 1988. After a moment of despondency, the Chirac machine started up again. During the referendum on Maastricht, he took a position for the "yes", against the vast majority of his party. In March 1993, the opposition led by Chirac won a crushing victory. Edouard Balladur became Prime Minister. In 1995, Jacques Chirac was elected President of the Republic: thirty years of political life found their fulfillment.

Release Date2006-10-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Ivo Livi dit Yves Montand

Release Date2011-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Résistances

Release Date2022-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count3

L'Ennemi intime

This film on torture in Algeria retraces, in its complexity, the history of torture during this war. It responds to simple questions even if the answers are complex : when, how, why and how many ? Using interviews from soldiers, confessions from the drafted contingent who practiced electric shock treatment in cold blood, stories from doubtful parachutists, interviews from Algerian victims, heads of the FLN (on the exactions they committed), politicians of the period, historians, this film scrupulously brings to its viewers all the historical, political, social and cultural data that permitted this abomination to develop. Far from just isolating these brut testimonies, these repeated horror stories (either subjected to or from those who carried them out), this film helps us understand how these practices from a different era have been institutionalised in the French Republic (Algeria was French).

Release Date2002-03-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Carlos: Terrorist Without Borders

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.

Release Date1997-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Les survivants

Ten survivors from the nazi camps speak about their struggle.

Release Date2005-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Histoire secrète de l’antiterrorisme

Release Date2018-11-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

De Gaulle, the Last King of France

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.

Release Date2017-03-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Lionel raconte Jospin

Release Date2010-01-14

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Les Fauves covers 15 years of hostility between Nicolas Sarkozy and Dominique de Villepin, from the 1995 presidential elections to the present day. Much of the French political right’s history can be expressed in the no-holds-barred battle between these two party siblings, who are simply incarnating the sequel to Chirac vs. Balladur. In this fight-to-the-political-death, senselessness and zeal trump all.

Release Date2012-02-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

A Wall in Berlin

Release Date2009-11-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

De Gaulle le retour : 13 mai 1958

Release Date2018-11-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

De Gaulle : le retour

Release Date1998-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector