Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
Celebrate 40 years of "Apostrophes"
2015 · 1h 39m · N/A Documentary
Overview
Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot.
Director and cast
- Bernard Pivot as Self
- Pierre Assouline as Self
- Roland Topor as Self (archive footage)
- Françoise Sagan as Self (archive footage)
- Gabriel Matzneff as Self (archive footage)
- Bernard-Henri Lévy as Self (archive footage)
- Patrick Modiano as Self (archive footage)
- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn as Self (archive footage)
- Marguerite Yourcenar as Self (archive footage)
- François Mitterrand as Self (archive footage)
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