Michèle Ray-Gavras

Michèle Ray-Gavras

  • Birthday: 1939-01-01
  • Place of birth: Paris, France
  • Also know as: Michèle Ray

Biography

Michèle Ray-Gavras (born 1939) is a French film producer and journalist. As an independent journalist between 1963 and 1977, Michèle Ray covered struggles in Vietnam and Bolivia for multiple French media. Between April 1966 and February 1967, while reporting on the Vietnam war, Michèle Ray travelled in South Vietnam among the American GI forces. She then continued to the communist north and was captured by the Vietcong on 17 January 1967. She was liberated on 6 February after falling sick. She brought back a special report published in the Nouvel Observateur, a film that was used in the documentary Far from Vietnam, and she published a book, The Two Shores of Hell. She traveled to Bolivia in 1967 to report on the capture and death of Che Guevara, publishing an article in Paris Match before being expelled from the country. In 1971, Michèle Ray was covering the Uruguayan general election for French television and radio, when she was kidnapped by the anarchist group OPR-33 and held for 3 days, between 29 November and 3 December before being released. Costa Gavras was in Uruguay at the time, preparing his film State of Siege. Source: Article "Michèle Ray-Gavras" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

Burke & Hare

2010

As French Family

Production

Suzanne

2005

As Thanks

Amen.

2002

As Producer

The Ax

2005

As Producer

Tea in the Harem

1985

As Producer

Summer of '62

2007

As Producer

Cemetery Man

1994

As Executive Producer

Special Section

1975

As Producer

Adults in the Room

2019

As Producer

Latcho Drom

1993

As Producer

I Still Hide to Smoke

2017

As Producer

The Ax

0000

As Producer

Hanna K.

1983

As Executive Producer

Family Business

1986

As Producer

Pereira Declares

1995

As Co-Producer

The Colonel

2006

As Producer

Capital

2012

As Producer

Graziella

2015

As Producer

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