Michèle Ray-Gavras

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Michèle Ray-Gavras

Michèle Ray-Gavras (* 1939 in Paris ) is a former French model , former journalist and film producer .

Life

Michèle Ray married the film director and screenwriter Costa-Gavras in 1968 . Until 1960 she presented creations by Coco Chanel in Paris. Then she went on an expedition from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska with two Renault 4 cars . Michèle Ray also did research with a Renault in 1966 for Le Nouvel Observateur and Agence France Presse in South Vietnam , where she was captured by the Viet Cong after seven months and held for 21 days. For Paris Match she researched the death of Che Guevara in Bolivia .

On June 8, 1970, she received a tape recording from Ulrike Meinhof , which she passed on to the editorial staff of Spiegel . In 1995 she was a member of the jury at the Cannes International Film Festival . She produced the 2002 literary film adaptation of her husband, The Deputy , together with Andrei Boncea. The film is based on Rolf Hochhuth 's documentary drama of the same name , which thematizes the attitude of the Catholic Church towards the Holocaust at the time of National Socialism in Germany.

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Footnotes

  1. michele-ray
  2. Michele Ray Upset Viet Cong Ideas On French Women. (offline)
  3. ^ Zalin Grant: Letters from a French Village
  4. Michèle Ray: In Cold Blood: The execution of Che by the CIA . In: Ramparts . tape 6 , March 1968, p. 21-38 .
  5. AFFAIRS / BAADER / MEINHOF: Until somewhere . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1970, pp. 71-75 ( online ).