Pierre-Olivier François

Pierre-Olivier François

54 (1971-01-01)
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Pierre-Olivier François is a German-French journalist and documentary filmmaker, among others for the broadcaster Arte.

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Have Fun in Pyongyang 2019 (7.2)

Is it possible to have fun in Pyongyang? Can one be joyful in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? If so, who can? Everyone? Doing what? Why does Kim Jong-un bet on amusement parks, skis trails, and tourism? This film allows to go beyond mass parades and recurring missile crisis, to meet the people of North Korean “Hermit Kingdom”. The authors have been there dozen times, like amateur anthropologists, filming during eight years parties and harvests, factories and singing contests, Pyongyang and the countryside – and interviewing North Korean people.
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French current affair show
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Der gefälschte Mond von Galileo Galilei 2019 (8.7)

The story sounds like a gripping thriller: almost 400 years after its publication, a previously unknown copy of Galileo Galilei's "Sidereus Nuncius", the "Starry Messenger", has appeared on the international book market. Unlike in the known copies, Galileo allegedly drew the moons himself. Who is behind the forgery?