Report on the shooting of Claude PINOTEAU’s film "the 7th target". Alternating scene of shooting at the flea market and interviews of Claude PINOTEAU on his film and the role of Lino VENTURA. Images of Claude PINOTEAU and Lino VENTURA talking during the shoot.
Report devoted to the decision taken by the government to ban free credit, through an investigation in the Parisian department store La Samaritaine. Comments on store plans alternating with the interview of a customer and the explanations of Didier BERGES, of the magazine "Que choisir", judging this measure "ridiculous".
This report offers an overview of the Salon de l'agriculture which has just opened its doors in Paris. Comment on images of breeders caring for their animals, visitors lending themselves to the joys of tasting products and alcohols, as well as children and farmers trying some farm machinery.
Interview with Gisèle HALIMI, lawyer, about the association "Mothers d'accueil" created by two Marseilles doctors, allowing a couple who cannot have a child naturally to have recourse to a "surrogate mother". It evokes the legal and ethical problems posed by this "belly rental", which makes the woman a "breeding beast", leading to a regression from the point of view of civilization.
In France and Germany at Seveso waste disposal sites. The investigation into the destination of drums of toxic waste from Seveso has still not been completed. The Greepeace association demonstrated this morning from the French headquarters of Hofmann Laroche, owner of the ICMESA factory in Italy where the Seveso disaster had occurred.
Interview with Olga HAVEL on the conditions of detention of her husband, Czech writer Vaclav HAVEL. Excerpt from the magazine "Resistances" broadcast on Antenne 2 on 27 January 1983.
Introduction of the new European Parliament. The Communist Party is losing ground to the arrival in the Green Parliament and the far right. Britain expresses its national dissatisfaction in the European elections, as does Germany.
Under pressure from feminist movements and some of the socialist deputies, the government announced on October 20 its decision to table in the National Assembly a bill authorizing the partial reimbursement of the voluntary termination of pregnancy by the Social Security. According to this project, a user fee will remain at the expense of the beneficiaries, and the State will finance the costs of the Social Security for its interventions. Reaction of total opposition of the groups committed against abortion, satisfaction nuanced in the opposite camp, as evidenced by the demonstration organized this afternoon in Paris by the Planning familial, the association Choisir, the MLAC and the women’s groups. Commentary on images of the demonstration for the reimbursement of the IVG by the Social Security this afternoon rue de Rennes. In the procession, interviews with Monique ANTOINE ("Féminisme et politique"), Gisèle HALIMI ("Choisir"), a protester, and Andrée JAUBERT (French Movement for Family Planning).
The government announced last night its decision to table in the National Assembly a bill authorizing the partial reimbursement of the voluntary termination of pregnancy by the Social Security. On the set of the newspaper, commentary by Martine LAROCHE-JOUBERT, followed by the subject by Isabelle BAECHLER. Comment on images filmed in a Family Planning Centre (Family Planning document). Interview and reaction of Andrée JAUBERT, national manager of the French Movement for Family Planning.
A review of the struggle of Polish workers: - 14 August: workers on strike at Lenin shipyard, seated, distributing leaflets - 16 August: Lech Walesa; striking masks drawing leaflets - 18 August: negotiations between government and strikers with L. Walesa - 31 August: people kissing; demonstration with Walesa carried in triumph - 24 October: Warsaw court registers the statutes of the free trade union by adding a phrase on the CP that triggers workers' discontent - 30 October: Mr. Cania’s visit to Moscow where he is welcomed by Brezhnev
Meeting in Gdansk of the Solidarity union to discuss a retaliation after the announcement of the modified status of the unions: Various plenas on the assembly and Lech WALESA delivering a speech in the gallery.
Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA, Algerian Foreign Minister and member of the Revolution Council, who had just left the deliberations of Algiers where the succession of President Boumédiène is being negotiated, agreed to speak to the cameras, to answer Maurice WERTHER’s question: "Will you be the next president of the Algerian Republic?"
Meeting GISCARD D'ESTAING-SCHMIDT at the Pompidou Centre, Beaubourg, in Paris where the French President received the German Chancellor in order to sign an agreement on the European Monetary Area.
Images illustrating Jacques Mesrine’s escape from the prison of Health: various photos, first page of his book "L'instinct de mort", headlines of newspapers devoted to his escape...
Franco-German relations. On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the friendship treaty signed in 1963 between President De GAULLE and Chancellor ADENAUER, meeting in Paris between Valéry GISCARD d'ESTAING and Helmut SCHMIDT. Comment on factual images.
The new nuclear power plant in Fessenheim has just been started up, this one was designed on an American model. The national nuclear programme provides for the establishment of other similar power stations on French territory.
After the Cambodian army debacle, Jacques ABOUCHAR reviews the situation between Cambodia and Thailand. Seated in front of the border, he’s trying to get intelligence from young Khmer Rouge. The commentary on images of the soldiers and the population on either side of the bridge alternates with the plateau in Jacques ABOUCHAR’s situation.
In Paris, where a public meeting was organized by Amnesty International at the Palais du Trocadéro on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Jean-François KAHN evokes two striking examples from recent human rights news: death sentences for public offenses in China; the murder of leftist activists in Chile.
One year after its launch and the broadcast of the first programs, digital terrestrial television enjoyed a resounding audience success, as shown by the sales of adapters. Commentary on factual and illustration images and interviews Bruno FRAIOLI (journalist of the magazine "Strategies"), Marc TESSIER (former CEO of France Télévisions) and Dominique BAUDIS (president of the CSA).