Michelle Podroznik
Writing
Known For

The daily lives of the inhabitants of "le Mistral", an imaginary neighbourhood in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille, where wealthy families cross paths with the less than rich.
Plus belle la vie

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P.J.

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
The Bunker

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Tribunal

Angèle returns from Africa to the country where she was born, the Cathar country, in the company of Jérémie, her child. His father's estate is on the verge of bankruptcy. José, his father and his sister Irène do not welcome her with pleasure: she then decides to isolate herself in a house which belonged to her mother. The arrival of Stéphane, a Bosnian refugee, will change Angèle's life. Both decide to create a regional natural park on the lands of their ancestors. Alas, the path is tough since the construction of a factory is under consideration and Irène supports the project...
Tramontane

This French TV series from the 1950s and 60s explored historical events using dramatic reenactments, bringing history to life for its viewers.
The camera explores time

Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

Escaped from jail, Luis finds refuge on a remote island where, it is said, several people have died long ago of a mysterious illness. He discovers a large abandoned villa. One day, a group of people from another time, come in. The villa and the nature around become the theater of strange phenomena…
The Invention of Morel

Cécile has returned to her childhood village. She is going to marry François. But a meteorological phenomenon will turn everything upside down.
Nuages

A legendary police commissioner is at the edge of writing his memoirs when he asked to help out with solving a locked room mystery where two people are found dead in an apartment that was locked from the inside.
Six crimes sans assassins
Interview with artistic adviser and writer Jean-Dominique de La Rochefoucauld and script supervisor Michelle Podroznik, who discuss the making of Roberto Rossellini's film "The Taking of Power by Louis XIV."