Patrick Rotman (Writing)
Little is known about Patrick Rotman, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Jorge Semprún, la plume au poing
Release Date:2024-01-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Résistances
Release Date:2022-09-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:3
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 Date:2020-02-11
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:10
De Gaulle le retour : 13 mai 1958
Release Date:2018-11-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Histoire secrète de l’antiterrorisme
Release Date:2018-11-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
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 Date:2017-03-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
La Tragédie des Brigades Internationales
Release Date:2016-10-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
L'Homme du destin, De Gaulle 1940 - 1944
Release Date:2015-02-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
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 Date:2013-05-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Les fauves: Sarkozy - Villepin, 15 ans d'affrontements
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 Date:2012-02-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Ivo Livi dit Yves Montand
Release Date:2011-09-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
The Conquest
A look at French president Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power.
Release Date:2011-05-18
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:93
La Case du siècle
A French current affairs show.
Release Date:2010-09-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:3
Lionel raconte Jospin
Release Date:2010-01-14
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
A Wall in Berlin
Release Date:2009-11-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
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 Date:2008-03-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
Intimate Enemies
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
Release Date:2007-10-03
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:77
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 Date:2006-10-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Jacques Chirac, du jeune loup au vieux lion
Release Date:2006-10-23
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Infrarouge
French current affair show
Release Date:2006-02-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:3
Les survivants
Ten survivors from the nazi camps speak about their struggle.
Release Date:2005-09-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
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 Date:2005-06-07
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:10
Un été 44 - La libération
Release Date:2004-06-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
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 Date:2002-03-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
L'ennemi intime
Release Date:2002-01-01
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
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 Date:2000-10-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Narrator (voice)
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:1
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 Date:1999-10-06
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:2
De Gaulle : le retour
Release Date:1998-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Carlos: Terrorist Without Borders
Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.
Release Date:1997-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
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 Date:1992-02-19
Character:Interviewer
Vote Count:5
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 Date:1975-01-10
Character:Self
Episode Count:5
Vote Count:2