He dreamed of being a singer or a racing driver.
He will say that “prophet of the extraterrestrials”, ultimately, is not bad either.
Fifty years after the creation of this movement, classified as a sect since 1995 by a parliamentary report, the figure of Raël continues to raise questions.
His story is told in a fascinating documentary in four episodes, rich in archives and testimonies including that of the guru himself, put online this Wednesday, February 7 on Netflix.
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Saying his name often provokes a smile.
This is because the story of Claude Vorilhon, his real name, 77 years old today and now living in Japan, is incongruous.
Many have in their minds these images of an attractive man, with beard and curly hair dressed all in white, who runs around the TV sets to recount his funny experience, detailed in a first work, “The Book That Tells the Truth”.
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