Les Cent Livres des Hommes

Les Cent Livres des Hommes (ORTF, 1969-1973) was a series of literary programs created by Claude Santelli and Françoise Verny, and produced notably by Santelli, Jean Archimbaud, and Serge Moati. Planned for one hundred episodes but completed at thirty-nine, the series aimed to introduce great literary works, 'chefs-d’œuvre', to a younger audience through a mix of dramatization, reading, and documentary techniques. It marked a transfer of cultural legitimacy from writers and critics to a generation of television producers, offering a new model of educational and creative literary broadcasting - 'télévision d’auteur'.

Director

Claude Santelli,Serge Moati,Jean Archimbaud,Bernard d'Abrigeon,André Dhénaut,Michel Favart,André Lecoeuvre,Nat Lilienstein,Jean-Louis Muller,Gilbert Larriaga,Maurice Dugowson,Marcel Boudou,Alain Dhenaut

Writers

Marcel Proust,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Jack London,Claude Santelli