L'affaire Matzneff (2020)
About the Gabriel Matzneff affair and pedophilia in French culture and society from the 1950s to the present day. "It was not very difficult to know who Matzneff was at the time." Vanessa Springora denounces thus, in an interview with the Parisian , the support which benefited the writer Gabriel Matzneff , in the years 1970 and 1980. The author fifties then maintains an affair with the young girl, aged 14 years. A relationship under control that the editor tells in Le Consentement (éd. Grasset), published Thursday. "After having analyzed the work " , the Paris public prosecutor's office announced Friday January 3 the opening of an investigation for "rapes committed on the person of a minor of 15 years".
Director: François Coquet
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Gabriel Matzneff as Self |
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Vanessa Springora as Self |
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Marguerite Duras as Self (archive footage) |
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Serge Gainsbourg as Self (archive footage) |
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Louis Malle as Self (archive footage) |
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Vladimir Nabokov as Self (archive footage) |
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André Gide as (archive footage) |
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Henry de Montherlant as Self (archive footage) |
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Georges Brassens as (archive footage) |
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Maurice Biraud as (archive footage) |
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Daniel Cohn-Bendit as Self |
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Léo Ferré as (archive footage) |
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France Gall as (archive footage) |
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Gabriel Russier as Self |
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Christophe Tison as Self |
| Directing | François Coquet | Director |
| Writing | Vanessa Springora | Writer |
| Writing | Gabriel Matzneff | Writer |