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Danielle Hunebelle in 1966
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Hanoï 1964, with Communist
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New Delhi 1967, with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
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In the White House, with President Richard Nixon and his advisor Henry
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With King Hassan II of Morocco (1978)
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Danielle Hunebelle, a major figure in international journalism for almost forty years, a cineast, writer and company manager, experienced the exhilaration and trials of a pioneer, of a woman emancipated before her time.
A war correspondent in Greece, Indochina and Algeria, she published revelations that made a strong impact on the public in Le Monde newspaper, Réalités magazine and Pierre Lazareff's press. Her many reportages in the USSR and in the Eastern countries, just after Stalin's death, made the front pages. She came up with scoops envied by her foreign colleagues - the interviews granted by Hô Chi Minh, General Giap, and Alexander Dubcek in Prague - and in the White House she made the world's first film about the unknown advisor who was to become a star: Henry Kissinger. She was in contact with numerous important figures of the century, thinkers, writers, scientists and artists, such as Arthur Koestler, Aldous Huxley, Robert Oppenheimer and Calder, but she has also had some exceptional human experiences with Indian farmers and in Mossadegh's Iran…
She thought out and developed programmes for French and American television networks that were half documentary half fiction, and were very widely discussed.
Finally, in the 1970s she dared, without any financial resources to speak off, to launch the first French economic and financial newsletter intended for decision-makers all over the world, scoring a spectacular success.
This independent and unconventional woman, ahead of her time, also dared to found a family alone and brought up her two daughters alone.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
- Journalist, novelist, television author and producer.
- Born on 10 May 1922 in Paris 8ème.
Daughter of André Weill, manufacturer, and his wife, née Germaine Cordon.- Mother of two children: Juliette and Léonor.
- Education: Lycées Racine and Molière, and the Paris Faculté des Lettres.
Carrière :
- Actress (1945-48)
- Journalist (beginning in 1948), getting a start in international reporting in Czechoslovakia for the Intransigeant (1948), war correspondent in Greece for France-Soir (1948), information attaché to General de Lattre de Tassigny in Indochina (1951), "envoyée spéciale" for Le Monde newspaper (1951), "grand reporter" for the magazine Réalités (1952-72) and a writer for various dailies and magazines in Paris, the French provinces and abroad. She also served as editor-in-chief of the Nouveau Candide weekly (April-May 1961).
- Creator (1973) of the company Publications Danielle Hunebelle, publisher (1973-87) in French and in English of the Lettre Internationale de Danielle Hunebelle.
Œuvres :
Films :
Among other programmes, produced the first television film in North Vietnam (1964) and the first film about Henry Kissinger in the White House (1970)
- Creator for television of the drama series called "Jeux de société" (party games)
- Author and producer of Prof de philo (1963), le Fils du Patron (1964), Une Maladie, le Sauvage Curé (1965), Histoire d'un écolier (1966), les Nouveaux Venus, On vous rendra justice (1967), La mort d'un honnête homme (1968), le Testament, le Réfugié (1969), la Société de mes rêves (1971) and le Français des Onusiens (1972)
- For American television, produced a feature-length programme in English about race relations: Negroes next door (1968), adapted for the ORTF (French Broadcasting Cooperation) as Des Noirs pour voisins (1970).
Decorations : Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and of Arts and Letters
Adress : Elia Résidence, 06190 Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
Biography : Danielle Hunebelle, Grand Reporter by Christiane Rimbaud, Ed. Anne Carrière, Paris, 2001