INTERVIEW
After having studied the two world wars, Hitler and Stalin and then the butcher's shop in Verdun, the cult historical series returns with Apocalypse World War , by the two directors Daniel Costelle and Isabelle Clark. On the program, six 52-minute documentaries on the Cold War. The episodes will be broadcast on two special nights, Tuesday evening at 21:10, with the broadcast of the first three episodes and Tuesday, November 12, with the following three.
"The breath of the story is closer to the cinema than the documentary"
In exactly four days, on November 9, 2019, the world will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. 155 km long, 3 meters 60 high, the symbol of the separation between two worlds, the west under US domination and the east, communist, under Soviet domination. By falling that day, it is almost 40 years of the Cold War that is coming to an end. Apocalypse World War offers to relive this historic moment.
The ingredients that made the success of the brand are still there: 700 hours of exhumed archives, restored and colored, small stories of women and men who tell the Great Story. "One borrows the codes of the cinema", underlines the duo of director in Culture media . Moreover, Daniel Costelle emphasizes: "I think we must remove the word 'documentary' in favor of the word 'film' or 'cinema'". "The breath of the narrative is closer to cinema than documentary," adds Isabelle Clark.