Christophe Bourseiller (; born Christophe Gintzburger; born 27 September 1957 in

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) is a French actor, writer,

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and journalist. He began as a child actor and starred in

Yves Robert Yves Robert (19 June 1920 – 10 May 2002) was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. Life and career Robert was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. In his teens, he went to Paris to pursue a career in acting, starting with ...

's '' War of the Buttons'' (''La Guerre des boutons'') in 1962 on his debut. He made several appearances on stage in the late 1970s and early 1980s and again in 2005 and 2006.

Biography

He was born as Christophe Gintzburger. His father, André Gintzburger called Kinsbourg (1923-2013), was a playwright and theater producer. His mother, Chantal Darget (née Marie Chantal Chauvet; 1934-1988), was an actress and the daughter of journalist Claude Darget. His mother subsequently married the director

Antoine Bourseiller Antoine Bourseiller (8 July 1930 – 21 May 2013) was a French comedian and opera and theatre director. Born in Paris in 1930, from 1960 to 1963 Bourseiller headed the Studio des Champs-Elysées. In 1966, he was named director of the Centre dra ...

(of which Christophe adopts the surname as a stage name) and they had a daughter, the rejoneadora Marie Sara. From the age of four, he appears in cinemas in ''War of the Buttons'', the film by

. He then played under the direction of

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, Jacques Demy and

Pierre Jolivet Pierre Jolivet (; born 9 October 1952) is a French director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. His film '' Zim and Co.'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and his film '' The Night Watchman'' won the ...

. It is found in the credits of about thirty films, about twenty telefilms and on the poster of several plays. At the same time, he pursues a career as a writer, journalist, radio and television man. He has published thirty books on topics as diverse as: minority movements, political extremism, the against-culture, the industrial music and the new wave of the 1980s. Nearly a time of milieux of extreme left, it dedicates, in 1996, a work to the French Maoists entitled ''The Maoists: The Folle History of the French Red Guards''. On the radio, he began by creating in 1981 the free radio Frequency arts and shows. On France Musique, he co-produced a weekly program, launched in 2005 and dedicated to avant-garde music: Electromania and animated the morning for two seasons from 2011 to 2013. On television, after having presented several programs since 1984, he becomes editorial advisor of the program Ce soir (ou jamais!) until July 2011. He also participates in a historic program L'Ombre d'un Doubt on FR3 on Wednesdays on two, hosted by the presenter

Franck Ferrand Franck Ferrand (born 12 October 1967 in Poitiers) is a French writer and radio personality who specializes in history. He has a radio show about major figures of French history The first written records for the history of France appeared i ...

. In 2001, he published a review of studies on the Situationist International, Éditions Denoël, Archives and Situationist Documents, five issues of which will appear until 2005. In 2009, he was behind the "Who Are You? " by Bourin Éditeur. Since 2003, he has taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and at Sciences Po Lille. He is also preparing a PhD thesis at the Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University on Les Mouvements collaborationnistes français from June 1944 to December 1950 under the direction of

Pascal Ory Pascal Ory (born 31 July 1948) is a French historian. A student of René Rémond, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his master's dissertation on the Greenshirts of Henri Dorgères. In the 1 ...

. Since childhood, Christophe Bourseiller has been collecting leaflets and propaganda documents. He entrusted thousands to the Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He also collects, among others, rare and newspapers

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In 2014, he participated in the second season of the program Les Pieds dans le plat on Europe 1 as a columnist. Since September 7, 2014, he also produces on Musique Musique the program Musicus Politicus, which deals with the links between music and politics. He is finally chronicler in La Bande originale, on France Inter.

Bibliography

* 1984 : ''Une scène jeunesse'', Éditions Autrement * 1989 : ''Les Ennemis du système'', Éditions Robert Laffont * 1991 : ''Extrême Droite, l'enquête'', Éditions François Bourin (Éditions du Rocher, 2002, La Nouvelle Extrême Droite) * 1993 : ''Les Faux Messies'', Éditions Fayard * 1995 : ''Message Reçu'', Éditions Spengler * 1995 : ''Mauvais Garçons (en collaboration)'', Éditions Spengler * 1996 : ''Les Maoïstes, la folle histoire des gardes rouges français'', Éditions Plon * 1997 : ''Cet Étrange Monsieur Blondel'', Éditions Bartillat * 1998 : ''Les Écrivains et l'engagement (en collaboration)'', Bibliothèque publique d'information * 1999 : ''Le Guide de l'Autre Paris'', Éditions Bartillat * 1999 : ''Vie et Mort de

Guy Debord Guy-Ernest Debord (; ; 28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationis ...

'', Éditions Plon (Pocket, 2002) * 2000 : ''Le Miracle inutile'',

Éditions Flammarion Groupe Flammarion () is a French publishing group, comprising many units, including its namesake, founded in 1876 by Ernest Flammarion, as well as units in distribution, sales, printing and bookshops (La Hune and Flammarion Center). Flammarion b ...

* 2000 : ''Dictionnaire du rock (en collaboration), ''

Éditions Robert Laffont Éditions Robert Laffont is a book publishing company in France founded in 1941 by Robert Laffont. Its publications are distributed in almost all francophone countries, but mainly in France, Canada and in Belgium. It is considered one of the most ...

* 2000 : ''Les Forcenés du désir'',

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* 2001 : ''Le Guide de l'Autre Londres'', Éditions Bartillat * 2002 : ' (en collaboration), Böhlau Verlag * 2003 : ''La Véritable Histoire de

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'' (entretiens avec

Robert Barcia Robert Barcia, also known as Hardy and Roger Girardot (22 July 1928 in Paris – 12 July 2009 in Créteil), was a French politician who was leader of the Internationalist Communist Union (UCI), a Trotskyist Trotskyism is the political ideol ...

* 2003 : ''Jacqueline de Jong'', Undercover in de Kunst/in art (en collaboration), Ludion * 2003 : ''Fous littéraires, nouveaux chantiers''(en collaboration), Du Lérot * 2003 : ''Histoire générale de l'ultra-gauche'',

* 2004 : ''Bibliothèque secrète'', Éditions Bartillat * 2004 : ''Les Têtes de Turc (en collaboration)'', Du Lérot * 2005 : ''

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, la vérité du mensonge'', Éditions du Rocher * 2006 : ''L'Aventure moderne'',

Flammarion Flammarion may refer to: * Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), French astronomer and author * Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (1877–1962), French astronomer, wife of Camille Flammarion * Flammarion engraving by unknown artist; appeared in a book by C ...

* 2006 : ''Extrêmes gauches, la tentation de la réforme'', Éditions Textuel * 2008 : ''Génération Chaos - Punk, New Wave 1975 - 1981'',

* 2009 : ''À gauche, toute !'', CNRS Éditions * 2009 : ''Lutte armée'', Éditions du toucan * 2009 : ''Qui etes vous ? Antoinette Fouque'' (en collaboration avec Antoinette Fouque), Bourin Editeur * 2010 : ''Qui etes vous ? Michel Maffesoli'' (en collaboration avec Michel Maffesoli), Bourin Editeur * 2010 : ''Un Maçon franc'', Éditions Alphée

Filmography

* 1976: ''

Pardon Mon Affaire ''Pardon Mon Affaire'' (French title: Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, in English literally ''An Elephant Can Be Extremely Deceptive''), is a 1976 French comedy film co-written and directed by Yves Robert. It was remade as the 1984 American ...

'' * 1979: '' Courage - Let's Run'' * 1981: ''

Clara et les Chics Types ''Clara et les Chics Types'' is a 1981 French comedy drama directed by Jacques Monnet. Plot In Grenoble, Mickey, Bertrand, Frederick, Charles, Louise and Aimee, united by a common love of music, form a group, the Why Notes. One day, Bertrand rem ...

'' * 1991: '' A Mere Mortal (Simple mortel)'' * 2015: ''

The Art Dealer ''The Art Dealer'' (French title: ''L'Antiquaire'') is a 2015 French thriller drama film produced and directed by François Margolin. The film is about a young woman's quest to recover the collection of paintings stolen from her Jewish family du ...

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