L’insaisissable Albert Kahn

About - L’insaisissable Albert Kahn

Who remembers Albert Kahn, born in Marmoutier in Alsace on March 3, 1860 and died in Boulogne-Billancourt on November 14, 1940?
At the birth of cinematography, Albert Kahn, a banker turned billionaire, decided to create "the archives of the planet", namely to film the lives of the peoples of the world, their movements and their conflicts. A lover of gardens and philosophy (he was a friend of Henri Bergson), a speculator with great flair, Kahn was a secretive and mysterious man, who paradoxically refused to be photographed.
This great traveler discovered with surprise that the world was not as the books had described it to him: he therefore decided to show it. 140 km of film, 70,000 photographs and numerous analytical publications distributed free of charge bear witness to this singular profession of faith. Strikes, economic crises, battles, congresses, the situation in the Third World and the Far East, the rise of Nazism, his films are the fierce witnesses of the political and social history of the early 20th century.
But who was this man who should have been the king of all of Paris and who was hiding at the bottom of his park in Boulogne, in this big house, where he lived all alone, a recluse, without a wife, without a child, without a family?

Robin Hunzinger

For over 15 years, Robin Hunzinger has been making documentary films about war, traces of memory, man facing the unthinkable, and nature.
After studying History and Art History in Strasbourg, he began studying Cinema at Jussieu. It was in 1996, in Sarajevo, that he wrote his first film: "Gorazde, Psychogeography of a Border".
His films have been presented in many festivals: Cinéma du réel (Paris), Etats généraux du film documentaire (Lussas), International Film Festival (Rotterdam), Beirut Festival, FIGRA…
He was awarded the Best Programs Schowcase at the Thessaloniki festival, Greece, in 2002, a star from the SCAM in 2007 and 2008, the Grand Prix at the Traces de Vie festival in 2008 and the Ahmed Attia Award in Sitges, Spain in 2011.
In addition to his work as a documentarian, Robin Hunzinger produces radio documentaries for France Culture and Arteradio.com. He is also the publication director of the Revue des ressources, a space for exchange between the world of writing and images, and head of Editions ERR.

Génerique - L’insaisissable Albert Kahn

Réalisateur	Robin Hunzinger
Image	Jérôme Kempa
Son	Jean-Philippe Chalté
Montage	Jeanne Moutard
Musique	Jean-Philippe Chalté

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France Télévisions

Avec l’aide du Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l’Image animée, de la Procirep / Angoa, de la Région Alsace et de la Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg.
Développé avec l’aide de la Procirep et de la Région Alsace.