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Christophe Gintzburger (born 27 September 1957), known professionally as Christophe Bourseiller, is a French actor, writer, freemason and journalist. He began his career as a child actor and made his debut in Yves Robert's 1962 film War of the Buttons. He made several appearances on stage in the late 1970s and early 1980s and again in 2005 and 2006. He was born Christophe Gintzburger. His father, André Gintzburger called Kinsbourg (1923–2013), was a playwright and theater producer. His mother, Chantal Darget (née Marie Chantal Chauvet; 1934–1988), was an actress and the daughter of journalist Claude Darget. His mother subsequently married the director Antoine Bourseiller (of which Christophe adopts the surname as a stage name) and they had a daughter, the rejoneadora Marie Sara. From the age of four, he appears in cinemas in War of the Buttons, the film by Yves Robert. He then played under the direction of Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Lelouch, Jacques Demy and Pierre Jolivet. It is found in the credits of about thirty films, about twenty telefilms and on the poster of several plays. At the same time, he pursues a career as a writer, journalist, radio and television man. He has published thirty books on topics as diverse as: minority movements, political extremism, the against-culture, the industrial music and the new wave of the 1980s. Nearly a time of milieux of extreme left, it dedicates, in 1996, a work to the French Maoists entitled The Maoists: The Folle History of the French Red Guards. On the radio, he began by creating in 1981 the free radio Frequency arts and shows. On France Musique, he co-produced a weekly program, launched in 2005 and dedicated to avant-garde music: Electromania and animated the morning for two seasons from 2011 to 2013. On television, after having presented several programs since 1984, he becomes editorial advisor of the program Ce soir (ou jamais!) until July 2011. He also participates in a historic program L'Ombre d'un Doubt on FR3 on Wednesdays on two, hosted by the presenter Franck Ferrand. In 2001, he published a review of studies on the Situationist International, Éditions Denoël, Archives and Situationist Documents, five issues of which will appear until 2005. In 2009, he was behind the "Who Are You?" by Bourin Éditeur. Since 2003, he has taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and at Sciences Po Lille. He is also preparing a PhD thesis at the Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University on Les Mouvements collaborationnistes français from June 1944 to December 1950 under the direction of Pascal Ory. Since childhood, Christophe Bourseiller has been collecting leaflets and propaganda documents. He entrusted thousands to the Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He also collects, among others, rare and newspapers. In 2014, he participated in the second season of the program Les Pieds dans le plat on Europe 1 as a columnist. Since September 7, 2014, he also produces on Musique Musique the program Musicus Politicus, which deals with the links between music and politics. He is finally chronicler in La Bande originale, on France Inter. Source: Article "Christophe Bourseiller" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Filmography
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2025
Tous complotistes !?
Movie Self
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2022
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2021
C ce soir
TV show Self - Guest
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2019
C'est un complot
TV show Writer
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2018
Mr. Know-It-All
Movie Doctor Jais
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2017
La case en +
TV show Self
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2015
The Art Dealer
Movie Hurtado
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2013
Indiscrétions
Movie Benjamin Lacombe
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2012
L'Innocent
Movie Prison Director
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2011
Love Lasts Three Years
Movie Le curé
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2009
LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
Movie Monsieur Gerbère, SVT teacher
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2007
Chez Maupassant
TV show Maître Grappe
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2005
L'Année des Guignols - Goodbye Louis XVI !
Movie (voix)
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2003
Three Blind Mice
Movie The French Cop
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1994
Un crime de guerre
Movie Vergnaud
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1993
Boulevard des hirondelles
Movie Maurice David
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1993
Trapped by a Dream
Movie Le producteur
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1990
Simple mortel
Movie Fabien
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1990
Fort Boyard
TV show Self
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1990
Chillers
TV show Paul
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1988
Three Seats for the 26th
Movie Serge
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1988
Eurocops
TV show Boulou
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1986
L'Été 36
Movie Bernard
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1986
La Galette du roi
Movie Jérémie Harris
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1985
P.R.O.F.S.
Movie Francis
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1983
Tout le monde peut se tromper
Movie Edgar
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1982
Bankers Also Have Souls
Movie Jean-Philippe Loriol
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1981
Si ma gueule vous plaît...
Movie Womanizer at play-back
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1981
Bolero
Movie
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1981
Clara and the Why Notes
Movie Frédérique
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1981
Asphalt
Movie Mechanic
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1980
Girls
Movie Bernard
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1979
French Postcards
Movie Pascal
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1979
Courage fuyons
Movie Christophe
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1978
Take It from the Top
Movie Le garçon de café
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1977
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Movie Lucien
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1976
Pardon Mon Affaire
Movie Lucien
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1967
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
Movie Christophe Jeanson
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1964
The Married Woman
Movie Nicolas
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1962
War of the Buttons
Movie Gaston (uncredited)