Régis Debray

Régis Debray

Jules Régis Debray (born 2 September 1940) is a French philosopher, journalist, former government official and academic. He is known for his theorization of mediology, a critical theory of the long-term transmission of cultural meaning in human society, and for associating with Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967 and advancing Salvador Allende's presidency in Chile in the early 1970s. He returned to France in 1973 and later held various official posts in the French government. Born in Paris, Régis Debray studied at the École Normale Supérieure as taught by Louis Althusser. He appeared as himself in the cinema verité movie Chronique d'un été by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin in 1960. He became an "agrégé de philosophie" in 1965. During the late 1960s he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Havana in Cuba, and became an associate of Che Guevara in Bolivia. He wrote the book Revolution in the Revolution?, which analysed the tactical and strategic doctrines then prevailing among militant socialist movements in Latin America, and acted as a handbook for guerrilla warfare that supplemented Guevara's own manual concerning the topic. It was published in Cuba in the "Cuadernos" collection by Casa de las Americas in 1967, by Maspero in Paris, in New York (Monthly Review Press and Grove Press), Montevideo (Sandino), Milan (Feltrinelli), and Munich (Trikont). Guevara was captured in Bolivia in October 1967; on 20 April 1967 Debray had been arrested in the small town of Muyupampa, also in Bolivia. Convicted of having been part of Guevara's guerrilla group, Debray was sentenced on 17 November to 30 years in prison. He was released in 1970 after an international campaign for his release which included appeals by Jean-Paul Sartre, André Malraux, General Charles de Gaulle, and Pope Paul VI. He sought refuge in Chile, where he wrote The Chilean Revolution (1972) after interviews with Salvador Allende. Debray returned to France in 1973 following the coup by Augusto Pinochet in Chile. After the election in France of President François Mitterrand in 1981, he became an official adviser to the Président on Foreign Affairs. In this capacity he developed a policy that sought to increase France's freedom of action in the world, decrease dependence on the United States, and promote closeness with the former colonies. He was also involved in the development of the government's official ceremonies and recognition of the bicentennial of the French Revolution. He resigned in 1988. Until the mid-1990s he held a number of official positions in France, including an honorary counselorship at France's supreme administrative court, Conseil d'État. In 1996, he published a memoir of his life, translated into English as Régis Debray, Praised Be Our Lords (Verso, 2007). ... Source: Article "Régis Debray" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Régis Debray
  • Popularity: 0.64
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1940-09-02
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
  • Homepage: https://www.regisdebray.com/
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Régis Debray Movies

  • 2003
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    Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

    Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

    5.8 2003 HD

    Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and...

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  • 1961
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    Chronicle of a Summer

    Chronicle of a Summer

    7.2 1961 HD

    Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking...

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  • 2011
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    Un été + 50

    Un été + 50

    7 2011 HD

    A seventy-five-minute documentary featuring outtakes from "Chronicle of a Summer" (1961), along with new interviews with co-director Edgar Morin and...

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  • 1973
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    You Speak of Chile: What Allende Said

    You Speak of Chile: What Allende Said

    5.8 1973 HD

    Salvador Allende interviewed by Régis Debray in 1971.

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  • 1988
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    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    7 1988 HD

    Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in...

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  • 1992
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    Journey of a “Cine-Son”

    Journey of a “Cine-Son”

    1 1992 HD

    Serge Daney, the most influential film critic after André Bazin, interviewed by Régis Debray a few months before his death.

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  • 1971
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    Compañero Presidente

    Compañero Presidente

    7.2 1971 HD

    On January 4, 1971, an extensive dialogue takes place between the president of Chile Salvador Allende and the French intellectual Regis Debray, a...

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  • 2025
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    Last Breath

    Last Breath

    1 2025 HD

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  • 1978
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    The Recourse to the Method

    The Recourse to the Method

    6.1 1978 HD

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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  • 1998
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    Vivement dimanche

    Vivement dimanche

    3.2 1998 HD

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