Fernand Pouillon

Acting

Fernand Pouillon

Born — Died

1912-05-14 — 1986-07-24

Place of birth

Cancon, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

6 titles

Fernand Pouillon, born May 14, 1912 in Cancon in the Lot-et-Garonne, was one of the great builders of the years of reconstruction after the Second World War in France. He spent his youth in Marseilles where he attended the School of Fine Arts before continuing from 1932 to 1934 studying architecture in Paris. He built his first building at the age of twenty-two in 1934 in Aix-en-Provence. Fernand Pouillon undertakes an ambitious bet in Aix-en-Provence: 200 housing units to be built in 200 days for a budget of 200 million francs. Using stone and economical but quality plans, Pouillon won his bet. In 1953, he renewed this kind of performance by creating the complex of buildings in Diar-el-Mah…

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Invitation Au Voyage poster
8.5

Invitation Au Voyage (titled *Stadt Land Kunst* in German) is a television program hosted by Linda Lorin; it has aired on Arte every weekday at 5:40 PM since March 13, 2017. It is a cultural travel show that explores various locations—both near and far—centered around three specific destinations. Additionally, a special Saturday edition at 4:30 PM offers a getaway to discover a particular city, region, or country.

Invitation Au Voyage

2017

Droit de Réponse poster
8.3

"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel, presented by Michel Polac and produced by Maurice Dugowson. Broadcast live on a weekly basis, on Saturdays from 8.30 p.m., the right of reply has been the source of many controversies, due to the various speakers who have come to present their point of view on the show (which leads to famous scandals , remained in the memory of viewers), but also for the variety and relevance of the topics covered, which ensured the success of the program on the air for several years. On French television, this program is considered by some observers as a “pioneer program in terms of controversy-show or clash, in modern language”.

Droit de Réponse

1981

Fernand Pouillon: France's Most Wanted Architect poster
10.0

The work of Fernand Pouillon, "France's most wanted" architect after being imprisoned and mysteriously escaping in the 1960s, now seems to have faded into the background. However, in 50 years he has built more than 5 million square meters, mainly between France and Algeria, at a frantic pace, traveling tens of thousands of kilometers per week, by propeller plane, to go to construction sites. at night or at dawn between Marseille, Paris, Algiers or in the middle of the desert, until you burn your wings. Among others, Fernand Pouillon decided to build houses for the most modest.

Fernand Pouillon: France's Most Wanted Architect

2023

Fernand Pouillon, Le roman d'un architecte poster
10.0

Constructing freestone buildings on the cheap, Pouillon made a name for himself at the end of the 1940s in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, shaking up his peers who only dreamed of towers and concrete bars. In Algiers, until Independence, he built in record time thousands of homes for the poorest, real urban projects inspired by traditional forms. In the Paris region, to build comfortable buildings quickly and well, nestled in the greenery, he becomes a promoter: this too adventurous bet leads him to prison and retains his reputation. Not very explicit about this complex affair, but seduced by a contemporary architecture that combines technical inventiveness and ancient references, Christian Meunier films by multiplying the angles of view. Today's lively atmospheres are interspersed with archive footage, while Pouillon's writings are read off. Moved, his collaborators evoke a demanding and generous man, with an infectious passion.

Fernand Pouillon, Le roman d'un architecte

2003

Fernand Pouillon, du point du jour à l’éclipse poster
6.0

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Fernand Pouillon, du point du jour à l’éclipse

2023

Fernand Pouillon, Une architecture habitée poster
10.0

In this documentary, Marie-Claire Rubinstein reveals to us, through the testimonies of the inhabitants who live there, the architectural achievements of the French urban planner Fernand Pouillon in Algiers. In particular the vast complexes of hundreds of social housing units, including the most famous Diar E Saâd (1953), Diar El Mahçoul (1954) and Climat de France (1957). The historical context, during the war of independence is related by the historian Benjamin Stora and Nadir Boumaza. This documentary also evokes the personality of Fernand Pouillon in a post-colonial context.

Fernand Pouillon, Une architecture habitée

2017

Film credits

2000s · 1 titles

1980s · 1 titles

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