The Troubles We've Seen, A History of Journalism in Wartime - First Journey
Synopsis
We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war correspondants. But this also becomes a reflexion about truth and life. The form consists in many interviews of mostly French and American journalists and reporters of television or newspapers.
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- Executive Producer : Little Bear
- French distribution : BAC Films
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producers : Frédéric Bourboulon, Bertrand Tavernier
- Directors of Photography : Pierre Boffety, Pierre Millon
- Assistant directors : Laurent Cantet, Dominik Moll
- Editor : Sophie Brunet
- Sound recordists : Michel Faure, Éric Devulder
- Assistant Operators : Catherine Pujol, Philippe Renaud
- Production managers : Patrick Lancelot, Véronique Bourboulon, Erin Cramer
- Press Attachés (film) : Eva Simonet, Nathalie Gorgon
- French Distributor : Jean Labadie
- Participants : Patrick Poivre D'Arvor, Philippe Noiret, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Romain Goupil, Gérard De Villiers, Marcel Ophüls
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Themes : War
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Germany, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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"Long, complex and a little mad but always engaging, this ambitious documentary by Marcel Ophuls ("The Sorrow and the Pity") examines the practice and meaning of war journalism, using the siege of Sarajevo as its reference point. (...) Ophuls' editing style is frantically associative, cutting to interviews within interviews and most provocatively, to excerpts from fictions film ; the fictional scenes serve as correlatives to the sometimes unbearable images". (Dave Kehr, Daily News - 06/10/94)
"Ophuls focuses on the moral ambiguities of wartime journalism, the play of courage, vanity, self-seeking, and selflessness that makes war correspondents the most fascination of reporters". (David Denby, New York Magazine - 24/10/94)
"He has provoked, manipulated or fascinated, depending on where you sit, but he has revolutionized the documentary from a droming, truth-telling form to a marathon event that mixes news clips, fiction and musical comedy." (Joan Dupont, Herald Tribune - 15/11/94)
