Acting

Paul-Émile Victor

Born — Died

1907-01-28 — 1995-03-07

Place of birth

Genève, Switzerland

Known for

Acting

Credits

5 titles

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Paul-Émile Victor, born Paul Eugène Victor on June 28, 1907 in Geneva and died in 1995, is a polar logistician recognized throughout the world. As a child, Paul-Émile Victor practiced scouting in the Jura and later headed for engineering studies at the École centrale de Lyon, then in Paris in 1926, to study at the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro. At the same time, he obtained his pilot's license. In January 1934 at the Academy of Sciences he approached one of the big names in French polar exploration, Commander Jean-Baptiste Charcot, to whom he presented an ethnographic expedition project: Studying the “Eskimos” of Eastern Greenland and bring back to Europe information and objects embody…

Known for

5.7

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Sacrée soirée

1987

6.8

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Champs-Elysées

1982

8.5

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

Apostrophes

1975

10.0

Groenland: twenty thousand leagues on the ice is a French documentary film directed by Marcel Ichac and Jean-Jacques Languepin, released in 1952 on the expedition of Paul-Émile Victor and his team in Greenland, in 1948-1949. The film received the Special Jury Prize - scientific or educational film at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952.