Indiana Jones turns 40

Paramount Pictures France CANNES 2008 Indiana Jones

By: Sophie Torlotin Follow |

Elisabeth Lequeret Follow

2 min

Its silhouette is recognizable among a thousand: soft hat, leather jacket and large whip!

This hero combines cunning with cynicism, nonchalance with courage, moral rectitude with clumsiness.

This is Indiana Jones, whose first adventure,

Raiders of the Lost Ark

, turns 40 this year.

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In 1981, designer and producer George Lucas, and director Steven Spielberg revolutionized Hollywood with this first opus of a saga that has four, and soon a fifth.

By giving birth to Indiana Jones, they created a universal hero, the most beloved figure in cinema, a pop icon available in derivative products and video games.

To talk about it, we welcome in studio Antoine Coursat, director with Clélia Cohen, of the documentary “

Indiana Jones: in search of the lost golden age

”, available on the

arte.tv site

.

And Clément Safra, author of the Spielberg dictionary, in two volumes, compact and very precise, published by Vendemiaire.

Also on the bill at our cinema, the reopening of cinemas in France from May 19, 2021: some 30 films will be showing, such as

Drunk

by Thomas Vinterberg and Garcon

Boy

by Nicolas Maury.

We are also going to Togo.

Ten young people aged 20 to 30, from five African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal and Togo are learning to write animated series.

For four months, they will work on season 2 of the animated series "Junior of the golden ideas".

Report by Peter Sassou Dogbé.

Musical breaks:

La Femme - 

Va

 ;

Rover

- To this tree.

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