Christophe Bourseiller
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 27, 1957
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
Biography
Christophe Gintzburger (born 27 September 1957), known professionally as Christophe Bourseiller, is a French actor, writer, freemason and journalist. He began his career as a child actor and made his debut in Yves Robert's 1962 film War of the Buttons. He made several appearances on stage in the late 1970s and early 1980s and again in 2005 and 2006.
He was born Christophe Gintzburger. His father, André Gintzburger called Kinsbourg (1923–2013), was a playwright and theater producer. His mother, Chantal Darget (née Marie Chantal Chauvet; 1934–1988), was an actress and the daughter of journalist Claude Darget. His mother subsequently married the director Antoine Bourseiller (of which Christophe adopts the surname as a stage name) and they had a daughter, the rejoneadora Marie Sara.
From the age of four, he appears in cinemas in War of the Buttons, the film by Yves Robert. He then played under the direction of Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy and Pierre Jolivet. It is found in the credits of about thirty films, about twenty telefilms and on the poster of several plays.
At the same time, he pursues a career as a writer, journalist, radio and television man. He has published thirty books on topics as diverse as: minority movements, political extremism, the against-culture, the industrial music and the new wave of the 1980s.
Nearly a time of milieux of extreme left, it dedicates, in 1996, a work to the French Maoists entitled The Maoists: The Folle History of the French Red Guards.
On the radio, he began by creating in 1981 the free radio Frequency arts and shows. On France Musique, he co-produced a weekly program, launched in 2005 and dedicated to avant-garde music: Electromania and animated the morning for two seasons from 2011 to 2013. On television, after having presented several programs since 1984, he becomes editorial advisor of the program Ce soir (ou jamais!) until July 2011. He also participates in a historic program L'Ombre d'un Doubt on FR3 on Wednesdays on two, hosted by the presenter Franck Ferrand.
In 2001, he published a review of studies on the Situationist International, Éditions Denoël, Archives and Situationist Documents, five issues of which will appear until 2005. In 2009, he was behind the "Who Are You?" by Bourin Éditeur.
Since 2003, he has taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and at Sciences Po Lille. He is also preparing a PhD thesis at the Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University on Les Mouvements collaborationnistes français from June 1944 to December 1950 under the direction of Pascal Ory.
Since childhood, Christophe Bourseiller has been collecting leaflets and propaganda documents. He entrusted thousands to the Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He also collects, among others, rare and newspapers.
In 2014, he participated in the second season of the program Les Pieds dans le plat on Europe 1 as a columnist. Since September 7, 2014, he also produces on Musique Musique the program Musicus Politicus, which deals with the links between music and politics. He is finally chronicler in La Bande originale, on France Inter.
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Movies with Christophe Bourseiller
- LOL (Laughing Out Loud) 2009 · ★ 6.5
- Love Lasts Three Years 2011 · ★ 5.7
- War of the Buttons 1962 · ★ 7.2
- Pardon Mon Affaire 1976 · ★ 7.0
- 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her 1967 · ★ 6.2
- Mr. Know-It-All 2018 · ★ 6.8
- We Will All Meet in Paradise 1977 · ★ 6.8
- P.R.O.F.S. 1985 · ★ 6.2
- The Married Woman 1964 · ★ 6.9
- Bolero 1981 · ★ 6.9
- Clara and the Why Notes 1981 · ★ 5.6
- Courage fuyons 1979 · ★ 6.2
- Three Seats for the 26th 1988 · ★ 5.8
- Bankers Also Have Souls 1982 · ★ 5.0
- Three Blind Mice 2003 · ★ 4.1
- La Galette du roi 1986 · ★ 4.6
- Asphalt 1981 · ★ 5.6
- Simple mortel 1990 · ★ 7.0
- Take It from the Top 1978 · ★ 5.5
- French Postcards 1979 · ★ 5.1
- Tout le monde peut se tromper 1983 · ★ 5.7
- Si ma gueule vous plaît... 1981 · ★ 3.3
- The Art Dealer 2015 · ★ 3.6
- Girls 1980 · ★ 4.2
- L'Innocent 2012 · ★ 6.7
- Boulevard des hirondelles 1993 · ★ 6.0
- L'Été 36 1986 · ★ 4.0
- Trapped by a Dream 1993 · ★ 6.0
- L'Année des Guignols - Goodbye Louis XVI ! 2005 · ★ 10.0
- Indiscrétions 2013 · ★ 5.0
- Un crime de guerre 1994 · ★ 9.0
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