Film

L'affaire Matzneff

2020 · 50m · Documentary

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".

Gabriel Matzneff

Self

Vanessa Springora

Self

Marguerite Duras

Self (archive footage)

Serge Gainsbourg

Self (archive footage)

Louis Malle

Self (archive footage)

Vladimir Nabokov

Self (archive footage)

André Gide

(archive footage)

Henry de Montherlant

Self (archive footage)

Georges Brassens

(archive footage)

Maurice Biraud

(archive footage)

Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Self

Léo Ferré

(archive footage)

France Gall

(archive footage)

Gabriel Russier

Self

Christophe Tison

Self

• François CoquetDirector
• Gabriel MatzneffWriter
• Vanessa SpringoraWriter

Release date

January 5, 2020

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

50m

Genres

Documentary