I’ve always known that my father was a ‘defrocked’ priest. But I prefer to consider myself the child of a forbidden love.

I wasn’t really interested in that story until I saw, on the cover of a magazine, the picture of a man who looked like a movie star, ‘the man who brought the Scandal’. I realized I didn’t know my folks that well.

I decided to poke my nose in family matters, to meet the young fellows they were before being my parents. Investigate, 40 years later, on the huge event that changed their lives and society.

This fable could be called ‘the Beauty and the Priest’ : The main characters are my father and my mother, in order of appearance.

Directed by Chloé Barreau

Coproducer: France 3 Centre 

With the support of Ciclic-région Centre

Broadcasters: France 3 Centre, TV5 Monde

Distributor: Illégitime défense

© France Télévisions – Camera lucida productions – 2012

Festivals

Jury Special Mention – BIOGRAFILM Festival in Bologna 2012 

CIRCOM 2013 Award – Best Documentary 

Laurier Première œuvre – Prix Marcel Jullian