Thierry Michel
- Director
- Writer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Thierry Michel, the indefatigable globe trotter. Always anxious to find
out about the wide world, the Belgian director has already explored,
through documentary or fiction, Morocco and its people (Issue de
secours 1987)), Brazilian favelas (Gosses de Rio (1990), the culture
of Zaire (Zaïre, le cycle du serpent (1992)), a Guinean hospital (Donka radioscopie d'un hôpital africain (1996)) or the contadictions of Iranian society (Iran sous le voile
des apparences (1996)). But Thierry Michel does not forget his native
Belgium. Born in 1952 in Charleroi, in the heart of an industrial
region nicknamed "the Black Country, the director made his first
documentaries following the miners or the steelworkers among whom he
had been raised. His first feature film was also well-rooted since it
was a re-creation of the great insurrectional strike of 1960 (Hiver 60 (1983)). Thierry Michel also
explored the inside of a Belgian prison in "Hôtel particulier". But
whether in his native Belgium or in a far country, this humanist is
always on the lookout for what brings people closer together. Which
makes him more than just a standard documentarist or fiction director.
Don't miss his last movie
Katanga Business (2009), a
brilliant political thriller.
