Marcel Trillat was a French journalist and documentary filmmaker.
15 Facts About Marcel Trillat
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Marcel Trillat directed many documentaries about the living conditions of workers, women and immigrants in France.
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Marcel Trillat did documentaries about French government's response to the Algerian War and the Gulf War and religious cults and public hospitals.
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Marcel Trillat co-directed a documentary with Maurice Failevic, about the history of communism in France.
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Marcel Trillat was born on 4 April 1940 in Seyssinet-Pariset Isere, France.
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Marcel Trillat grew up on a farm, and his parents were farmers.
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Marcel Trillat joined the French Communist Party at the age of 16, until 1987.
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Marcel Trillat attended a normal school to become a schoolteacher.
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Marcel Trillat first worked on a program called Cinq colonnes a la une.
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Marcel Trillat subsequently joined SCOPCOLOR and UNICITE as well as the General Confederation of Labour.
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Marcel Trillat returned to public broadcasting in 1981, as journalist, manager, foreign correspondant or deputy director of the newscast on Antenne 2, later known as France 2, until 2006.
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Marcel Trillat served on the board of directors of France Televisions as union representative from 2001 to 2006.
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Marcel Trillat directed one of his first documentary, Etranges etrangers, in 1970.
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Marcel Trillat directed Les Enfants de la dalle, a documentary about children who grew up in Corbeil-Essonnes, in 1998.
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In 2001, Marcel Trillat directed Les Prolos, a documentary about the French working class in the 21st century, and 300 jours de colere, another documentary about the factory workers of the Mossley Group in Hellemmes-Lille, northern France, who bargain collectively for severance packages.