Bruno Muel

Born in France into a middle-class family in 1935, Bruno Muel's activism was rooted in cinema. He worked as an operator on Marceline Loridan and Jean-Pierre Sergent's medium-length film Algérie, année zéro (1962), shot just after the independence. He collaborated again with Sergent on Rio Chiquito (1965), about FARC guerrillas in Colombia, before becoming René Vautier's director of photography for Les trois cousins (1970). Bruno Muel co-directed short and medium-length documentaries. He filmed Peugeot workers in Week-end à Sochaux (1972), an approach he repeated in Avec le sang des autres in 1975. Between these two films, he made Septembre chilien, co-directed with Théo Robichet, that tells the story of the Chilean junta after the 1973 coup d'état, and won the Prix Jean-Vigo. Bruno Muel was a filmmaker, producer and writer, a member of the Medvedkine groups in Besançon and Sochaux from 1967 to 1974, and a member of the French Communist Party from 1969 to 1974. He died on April 13, 2023 at the age of 87.