Les Cent Livres des Hommes

10.0(1)|1970-06-07|1 seasons, 17 episodes

DocumentaryAction & AdventureDrama

Overview

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'.

Episodes

The Hundred Books of Men(17)

S1E1 · 1970-06-07 · 33m

Le Petit Prince de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. An introduction to the poetic and philosophical universe of Saint-Exupéry, blending analysis and adaptation of his masterpiece.

S1E2 · 1971-02-03

Le Petit Chose

'Little Good-For-Nothing' or 'Little What's-His-Name' by Alphonse Daudet.

S1E3 · 1971-04-07 · 50m

Le Noeud de vipères

'The Knot of Vipers' by François Mauriac. A reading of Mauriac's novel that combines personal accounts with adapted scenes.

S1E4 · 1971-11-17 · 75m

La Chartreuse de Parme

'The Charterhouse of Parma' by Stendhal.

S1E5 · 1971-12-22

Du côté de chez Swann

'Swann's Way' by Marcel Proust.

S1E6 · 1971-12-22 · 60m

A la recherche du temps perdu

A realistic and poetic evocation of Marcel Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time.' Halfway between an audiovisual adaptation and a portrait of the dandyish and reclusive writer, all in black and white by Claude Santelli, evoking the mystery, the intimacy, and the fatalism of existence.

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