Thierry Michel

Thierry Michel was born on 13 October 1952 in Charleroi, in the Pays noir. He entered the Institut des arts de diffusion at the age of sixteen, and made his first documentaries in the mining and steelmaking basin of his childhood, then fiction films, before filming Brazil at the end of the eighties, then Zaire, from where he was once arrested and expelled in the middle of a shoot. He works in Liège with the producer Christine Pireaux; he received the Magritte for best documentary in 2016 and became an honorary citizen of Liège in 2018.

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• CinemaMobutu, King of ZaireMobutu, roi du ZaïreThierry Michel · 1999Cinema