During a shoot in Senegal, Sara Giraudeau discovers cinema in all its splendor.

Only 11 years old, she plays under the direction of her father in the historical film "The Caprices of a River".

At the microphone of Europe 1 on Saturday, the actress of the series "Le Bureau des Légendes" recounts this founding experience.

Daughter of actors Anny Duperey and Bernard Giraudeau, Sara Giraudeau has bathed since her earliest childhood in the world of theater and cinema.

Now recognized for her role in the series

The Office of Legends

and halo of her César for the film 

Little Peasant

, the actress does not forget her first steps in front of her father's camera in

Les Caprices d'une rivière

.

"It was the impregnation of an atmosphere of creation", she summarizes at the microphone of Isabelle Morizet, on Europe 1.

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Sara Giraudeau was only 11 years old in 1996, when her father began directing a film about a gentleman exiled in Africa in 1787, on the eve of the French Revolution.

The film crew therefore went to Casamance, a region in the south of Senegal.

The actress remembers her, a young girl, discovering an "anthill where everyone has their place, their action".

"I was a fairly privileged observer," she adds.

Until then accustomed to theatrical atmospheres, she remembers having been somewhat impressed by this collective effervescence.

Make a movie of his life

A great admirer of her father Bernard Giraudeau, she confides that he led his teams "with an iron fist".

"I was a spectator of some anger that was quite familiar to her. I realized that being a conductor was complicated."

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This first experience will in any case have the merit of consolidating her desire to make her life "a film or a play".

In this context, the return to a normal schoolgirl life sounds like a brutal cut.

Even in class, his mind will always wander towards Casamance.