Jack Lang

Jack Lang

Jack Mathieu Émile Lang (born 2 September 1939) is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party, he served as Minister of Culture from 1981 to 1986 and again from 1988 to 1993, as well as Minister of National Education from 1992 to 1993 and 2000 to 2002. He was also Mayor of Blois from 1989 until his resignation in 2000. Lang is best known for originating the Fête de la Musique in 1982 as Culture Minister, an all day public music festival which occurs yearly on 21 June in France and throughout the world. Since 2013 he has been president of the Arab World Institute in Paris. Jack Lang was born to Roger Lang and Marie-Luce Bouchet in Mirecourt, in the département of Vosges. His father's family were a secular, assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family based in Nancy. Roger Lang was the commercial manager of the family business which was founded by Jack's grandfather Albert. Roger and Albert were both freemasons. Jack's mother, Marie-Luce Bouchet, a Catholic, was born in 1919 as the daughter of Emile Bouchet, who died in 1926, and Berthe Boulanger, a nurse who was also a freemason. In 1938, Albert and Roger sent their wives to Vichy because of the threat of war with Germany. After the German invasion, Albert Lang and his wife moved to Brive-la-Gaillarde in Corrèze. The very young Jack and his mother went to stay with his great grandmother (the mother of Berthe Boulanger) in Cholet and subsequently moved to Bordeaux. His father Roger was first mobilized in Luneville, and then joined his parents and his brother-in-law Luc Bouchet in Brive. Jack and his mother also joined them in Brive after the bombing of Bordeaux. Jack Lang's father was sentenced by the court in Brive for failure to report his children as Jews, but was later acquitted by the Court of Appeal on the ground that the children's mother was a Catholic. He had followed the advice of the rabbi of Brive, David Feuerwerker. Roger Lang was nevertheless placed under house arrest. Berthe Bouchet (Boulanger) visited the Langs in April 1942 when her daughter was about to give birth to her third child, Marianne. In 1943, Berthe was arrested in Nancy by the Gestapo for acts of propaganda and resistance. She was deported to Ravensbrück and died in the spring of 1945. Jack Lang studied political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, and went on to receive a postgraduate degree in public law. His career then focused on a combination of teaching and culture and the arts. He was the founder and producer of Festival du Monde in Nancy, was director of the Nancy University Theatre from 1963 to 1972, and then director of the Théâtre national de Chaillot from 1972 to 1974. At the same time he was a professor of international law from 1971 to 1981 at Nancy University and then Paris Nanterre University. He married Monique Buczynski in 1961. The couple have two daughters. In 1997, he was President of Jury to the 47th Berlin International Film Festival. Lang entered politics as a Socialist member of the French National Assembly from Paris in 1977. He is best known for having served as Minister of Culture (22 May 1981 – 19 March 1986 and 13 May 1988 – 29 March 1993) and as Minister of Education (3 April 1992 – 29 March 1993 and 27 March 2000 – 5 May 2002). ... Source: Article "Jack Lang (French politician)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title : Jack Lang
  • Popularity : 1.739
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1939-09-02
  • Place of Birth : Mirecourt, Vosges, France
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Jack Lang Movies

  • 2017
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    François Hollande, le mal-aimé

    François Hollande, le mal-aimé

    8 2017 HD

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  • 2002
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    Enfin pris ?

    Enfin pris ?

    6.7 2002 HD

    Pierre Carles, the dispenser of justice seen in “Pas vu, pas pris,” is back in the saddle. After attacking French television star...

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  • 2010
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    L'Amour Fou

    L'Amour Fou

    7 2010 HD

    This documentary examines the life and work of the late fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent, recounting how a frail prodigy prone to bouts of...

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  • 2017
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    The Legend of the Ugly King

    The Legend of the Ugly King

    7 2017 HD

    Director Hüseyin Tabak explores the legacy of Yilmaz Güney — political dissident, convicted murderer, and visionary Kurdish filmmaker...

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  • 2019
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    Stupor Mundi: Livre 3, La plus dangereuse rencontre

    Stupor Mundi: Livre 3, La plus dangereuse rencontre

    1 2019 HD

    The 1990s to the present, through the main wars of the last decades - from Iraq to Libya - but also the influence of the East on modern Western...

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  • 2002
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    So Long Mister Monore

    So Long Mister Monore

    1 2002 HD

    Inspired by Paul Morrissey's cinematographic techniques, this tribute in the form of an experimental fantasy narrates the adventures of Mister Monore...

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  • 2017
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    François Mitterrand : Bâtisseur de mystères

    François Mitterrand : Bâtisseur de mystères

    1 2017 HD

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  • 1997
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    Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness

    Nureyev: Dancing Through Darkness

    1 1997 HD

    Despite his HIV-positive diagnosis in the early 1980s, Russian-born ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev continued to dance and work as the director of the...

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  • 2013
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    Age of Panic

    Age of Panic

    6 2013 HD

    May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two...

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  • 2011
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    François Mitterrand, à bout portant : 1993-1996

    François Mitterrand, à bout portant : 1993-1996

    9 2011 HD

    "What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his...

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  • 2024
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    Berlusconis Aufstieg

    Berlusconis Aufstieg

    8 2024 HD

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  • 2016
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    King of Morocco, the secret reign

    King of Morocco, the secret reign

    1 2016 HD

    In the form of an investigation, this documentary, filmed in Morocco and France, goes to the other side of the mirror of the beautiful photos of the...

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  • 2011
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    Laura's Passion

    Laura's Passion

    1 2011 HD

    A portrait of Laura Betti with archival footage and stories of friends: Bernardo Bertolucci remembers Laura in "Novecento" and in a lost sequence of...

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  • 2022
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    Liberté, égalité, chansonniers !

    Liberté, égalité, chansonniers !

    1 2022 HD

    Documentary on chansonniers, French singers writing comedy songs about politics.

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  • 2012
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    Happiness Never Comes Alone

    Happiness Never Comes Alone

    6.101 2012 HD

    Sacha is a real seducer, a man with no ties or emotional or professional. Charlotte is a modern and independent woman, but barely has time to care...

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  • 2017
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    Mr & Mme Adelman

    Mr & Mme Adelman

    7.476 2017 HD

    How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition,...

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  • 2017
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    La story des années 80

    La story des années 80

    1 2017 HD

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  • 2017
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    Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi

    Strehler: Il mago dei prodigi

    1 2017 HD

    An eulogy to Giorgio Strehler, the first real director in the italian theatre. He was a master, knowing all aspects of the show, from the set...

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  • 2021
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    Mitterrand, président culturel

    Mitterrand, président culturel

    1 2021 HD

    On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and...

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  • 2021
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    10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir

    10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir

    1 2021 HD

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  • 2021
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    10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ?

    10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ?

    8 2021 HD

    Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themselves dream about a better life while others...

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  • 1999
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    Les Guignols de l'info - L’Exclusive des 10 ans des Guignols

    Les Guignols de l'info - L’Exclusive des 10 ans des Guignols

    7 1999 HD

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  • 2004
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    Rose Palace

    Rose Palace

    1 2004 HD

    The story of Le Palace, the famous parisian night club in the late seventies. The documentary is a conversation between ex-clients, founders and...

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  • 1992
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    1992 : pourquoi les jeunes aiment le rap ?

    1992 : pourquoi les jeunes aiment le rap ?

    1 1992 HD

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  • 2021
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    Face à face pour l'Élysée

    Face à face pour l'Élysée

    9 2021 HD

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  • 1985
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    Victoires de la musique

    Victoires de la musique

    2 1985 HD

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  • 1985
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    Télématin

    Télématin

    4.5 1985 HD

    Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan...

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  • 1996
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    Télévision (histoires secrètes)

    Télévision (histoires secrètes)

    10 1996 HD

    The behind-the-scenes story of French television… This documentary unveils the lesser-known history of two audiovisual decades that have...

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  • 2000
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    François Mitterrand : le roman du pouvoir

    François Mitterrand : le roman du pouvoir

    6 2000 HD

    Jean Lacouture and Patrick Rotman interview the witnesses of François Mitterrand's life. Their testimonies, which both complement and...

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  • 1972
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    Midi trente

    Midi trente

    6 1972 HD

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  • 2022
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    Schulgeschichten

    Schulgeschichten

    6 2022 HD

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  • 2022
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    Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

    Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

    6.6 2022 HD

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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  • 1984
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    La Chance aux chansons

    La Chance aux chansons

    4 1984 HD

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  • 1987
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    Le monde est à vous

    Le monde est à vous

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1998
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    Vivement dimanche

    Vivement dimanche

    3.2 1998 HD

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  • 2020
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    Room 2806: The Accusation

    Room 2806: The Accusation

    6.773 2020 HD

    This docuseries follows the 2011 sexual assault case involving French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the height of his career.

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  • 2018
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    La Télé des années 80 : Les Dix Ans qui ont tout changé

    La Télé des années 80 : Les Dix Ans qui ont tout changé

    8.2 2018 HD

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  • 2022
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    Schulgeschichten

    Schulgeschichten

    6 2022 HD

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