Histoire parallèle

Histoire parallèle (German: The week 50 years ago ) was a television program designed and hosted by the French historian Marc Ferro from 1989 to 2001 . It was initially broadcast on the French channel La Sept (the predecessor of ARTE France ) from 1989 onwards and was taken over by Arte in 1992 . The idea goes back to Louisette Neil and André Harris. Didier Deleskiewicz directed it. The title music comes from the oratorio Gurre-Lieder by Arnold Schönberg .

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Together with a guest, usually a historian or an often prominent contemporary witness, Ferro, a specialist in film history and the history of the Soviet Union , used weekly newsreel material and other film documents to analyze a special topic from the week 50 years ago, which was reflected in the current reporting 50 years ago came to the fore. French, British, German, US, Italian, Japanese and Chinese newsreel reports were used. With 630 editions, an extremely detailed panorama of current events from the outbreak of World War II to the beginning of European unification in the early 1950s was created.

Analytical focal points included the Nuremberg Trials , the Indochina War , the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, the foundation of the RPF and the development of Gaullism and the Berlin Airlift .

Follow-up broadcast

In 2002 Arte produced and broadcast a further 26 issues and the title Les Carnets d'Histoire parallèle . Again it was directed by Didier Deleskiewicz. In the series, selected passages from Histoire parallèle were shown and combined into thematic dossiers, which were commented on by prominent guests such as Michail Gorbatschow , Gerhard Schröder or Lucie Aubrac .