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'.
Cast (90)
Directors
Claude Santelli
Director
Ages 46-50
Serge Moati
Director
Ages 23-27
Jean Archimbaud
Director
Bernard d'Abrigeon
Director
Michel Favart
Director
Gilbert Larriaga
Director
Marcel Boudou
Director
Ages 37-41
Alain Dhenaut
Director
Ages 28-31
André Dhénaut
Director
Maurice Dugowson
Director
Ages 31-35
André Lecoeuvre
Director
Nat Lilienstein
Director
Jean-Louis Muller
Director
Writers
Marcel Proust
Writer
Ages 98-102
Stendhal
Writer
Ages 187-190
Alphonse Daudet
Writer
Jules Michelet
Writer
Ages 171-175
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writer
Ages 220-224
François Rabelais
Writer
Jules Verne
Writer
Ages 142-145
Lewis Carroll
Writer
Ages 138-141
Jack London
Writer
Ages 94-97
Claude Santelli
Screenplay
Ages 46-50
Thomas Hardy
Writer
Ages 130-133
Maxim Gorky
Writer
Ages 101-104
Daniel Defoe
Writer
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Writer
Producers
Cinematographers
Original Language
fr
Spoken Languages
French