
Michèle Ray-Gavras
Production·January 1, 1939 — 87 years old·Paris, France
Michèle Ray-Gavras (born 1939) is a French film producer and journalist.
As an independent journalist between 1963 and 1977, Michèle Ray covered struggles in Vietnam and Bolivia for multiple French media.
Between April 1966 and February 1967, while reporting on the Vietnam war, Michèle Ray travelled in South Vietnam among the American GI forces. She then continued to the communist north and was captured by the Vietcong on 17 January 1967. She was liberated on 6 February after falling sick. She brought back a special report published in the Nouvel Observateur, a film that was used in the documentary Far from Vietnam, and she published a book, The Two Shores of Hell.
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2025No Other ChoiceProducer2025Before What Comes AfterProducer2019Adults in the RoomProducer2017I Still Hide to SmokeProducer2015GraziellaProducer2012CapitalProducer2010Burke & HareFrench Family2007Summer of '62Producer2006The ColonelProducer2005SuzanneThanks2005The AxProducer2002Amen.Producer2002The Pirate, the Wizard, the Thief and the ChildrenProducer1995Pereira DeclaresCo-Producer1994Cemetery ManExecutive Producer1993Safe JourneyProducer1993The Little ApocalypseProducer1986Family BusinessProducer1985Tea in the HaremProducer1983Hanna K.Executive Producer1978The Recourse to the MethodProducer1975Special SectionProducer1967Far from VietnamNarrator (segment "Victor Charlie") (voice) · Camera Operator











