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Marcel Trillat

Marcel Trillat was a French journalist and documentary filmmaker. 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 a documentary with Maurice Failevic, about the history of communism in France.

Early life
Marcel Trillat was born on 4 April 1940 in Seyssinet-Pariset Isère, France. He grew up on a farm, and his parents were farmers. He joined the French Communist Party at the age of 16, until 1987. He attended a normal school to become a schoolteacher. ==Career==
Career
Trillat began his career in television as an intern at the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française in 1965. He first worked on a program called Cinq colonnes à la une. He was fired for his politics in 1968. In 2003, he directed ''SOS hôpital, 24 heures dans la vie d'un hosto'', a documentary about the poor state of French public hospitals. Trillat openly supported the Left Front in 2011. In 2015, he signed a petition to maintain the right to protest in spite of the state of emergency. Trillat died 18 September 2020 in Paris, aged 80. ==Personal life==
Personal life
With Catherine Dehaut, Trillat had a son, Julien. ==References==
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