Biography

André Gazut, born November 25, 1938 in Firminy (Loire) in France, is a French documentary filmmaker. A trainee reporter-photographer at the monthly Réalités in Paris, he saw, in December 1956, in the photo department, about ten photos of torture taken by a colleague returning from Kabylie. This would mark him and his work for the rest of his life. Non-violent and anti-colonialist, he refused to bear arms and was incorporated in 1959 in Pau as a parachutist. Having obtained his parachutist certi...Read more