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William Karel (born 1940) is a French film director and author. He is known for his historical and political documentaries.


Biography


Karel was born in Bizerte in French Tunisia. After studying in Paris, he emigrated to Israel where he lived for about 10 years in a kibbutz. Returning to France in 1981, he turned to photography and worked for more than ten years as a photo-reporter for several agencies like Gamma (1972–1976) and Sygma (1976–1983). Then he started to direct movies.

Since the end of the eighties, Karel has directed many historical and political documentaries dealing with sensitive subjects of the twentieth century, from the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver) to the Israeli-Arab conflict, while talking about the FMI policy in Jamaica or the extreme right wing in France. His documentaries are frequently broadcast by the state controlled Arte and France 3 channels. He has also done portraits of French and American politicians — Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, François Mitterrand, Jean-Marie Le Pen, John F. Kennedy and George W. Bush.

Studies of the United States are an important part of Karel's work. After The Men of the White House (2000), a film about presidents during periods of crisis, he explored the secrets of the CIA in CIA, Secret Wars (2003). This movie is based primarily on interviews of former CIA directors, former CIA agents such as Robert Baer, and historians. Inspired by Eric Laurent's books about George W. Bush, he released The World According to Bush (2004) which quickly became famous in France through television and theatres.

Refusing to stick to a single genre, he also directed the mockumentary Dark Side of the Moon (2002). In The Empire State Building murders (2008), he combines clips from film noir and recent interviews with actors to tell a narrative story. He likes to recall François Truffaut's words, "A documentary is one thousand times more of a lie than a fiction, where things are clear from the beginning".

In 2011, William directed a film about a publisher Gallimard[1] and its 100 greatest authors. Among them, William chose to include Philip Roth[2][circular reference] as one of the great American novelists, along with Hemingway[3][circular reference], Fitzgerald[4][circular reference], Styron[5][circular reference], Salinger[6][circular reference], Faulkner[7][circular reference], Steinbeck[8][circular reference] and Miller[9][circular reference].[10]


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References


  1. Gallimard Fr http://www.gallimard.fr/. Retrieved 27 November 2019. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. "Philip Roth". Wikipedia. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  3. "Ernest Hemingway". Wikipedia. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  4. "F. Scott Fitzgerald". Wikipedia. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  5. "William Styron". Wikipedia. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  6. "J.D Salinger". Wikipedia. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  7. "William Faulkner". Wikipedia. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  8. "John Steinbeck". Wikipedia. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  9. "Arthur Miller". Wikipedia. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  10. "Film Comment: William Karel, Co-Writer and Co-Director". American Masters. Retrieved 27 November 2019.



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[de] William Karel

William Karel (* 1940 in Tunesien) ist ein tunesischer Fotograf, Autor und Regisseur. Karel besuchte die "École de Photo" in Paris, bevor er nach Israel immigrierte. In Israel lebte er für 10 Jahre im Kibbuz, wo er erst als Koch und auf einer Bananenplantage arbeitete.
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