He had a face and a look like Bébel, his double on screen and his twenty-year-old associate, except that we never saw him.
It showed.
Films, and above all, it was a first, films at home without depending on the 8:30 p.m. broadcast of the only three channels at the time.
René Chateau, the king of VHS, died “last week” at his home in Saint-Tropez, his family said after the news was revealed this Wednesday by “Nice-Matin”.
The discreet distributor of French cinema left at the age of 84, at the end of a life as a buccaneer, a buccaneer, an adventurer, a mogul, a hero whose life would have made a film but who preferred to publish other destinies than his.
And first of all those of the icons Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo, with unforgettable video covers, guns brandished almost under the nose of the potential buyer.
He knew how to sell, and how to turn a cassette into a treasure.
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