Marcel Trillat

Marcel Trillat was a French journalist and documentary filmmaker. A communist, he directed many documentaries about the living conditions of workers, women and immigrants in France. He also did documentaries about French government's response to the Algerian War and the Gulf War and religious cults and public hospitals. He co-directed three documentaries with Maurice Failevic, one of which is about the history of communism in France. He was a director of France Télévisions, France's public television broadcaster, for five years.