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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BUSH

A film by William KAREL première diffusion télévisuelle le june 23 2004

90 minutes

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Available on DVD since july 01 2004

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Synopsis

A film by William Karel
in collaboration with <
author La guerre des Bush and Le monde secret de Bush
(Editions Plon)

Eight years apart, George Bush and his son, George W. Bush, have succeeded each other at the head of the world's most powerful nation. An unprecedented phenomenon in American history. The key events of the last twelve years have taken place during their terms in office: the collapse of the Soviet empire and the Communist bloc, the first Gulf War, the events of September 11, the globalisation of terrorism and the new conflict with Baghdad.

Who are the Bushes? Apparently, the “quiet dynasty” of modern America. But in reality a “dynasty” whose inconceivable family secrets are painstakingly concealed. The grandfather of the current President, Prescott Bush, made his fortune by managing Nazi companies after Hitler seized power. In 1942, his companies were confiscated for collaboration with the enemy. George Bush Senior, Ronald Reagan’s Vice-President and then President from 1988 to 1992, armed and financed Saddam Hussein. He approved the shipping of germ warfare strains to Iraq, thus enabling the country to launch a chemical attack against Iranian troops and the Kurdish population.

This film aims to pass through the looking glass and to show how the Bushes, father and son, have not only dined with the devil but have often invited themselves to his table. The bin Ladens and the Bushes have always been business partners and the family of the future terrorist chief indirectly financed George W. Bush’s political career. This unnatural alliance has continued since the September 11 attacks: Bush Senior is a top official in one of the biggest private investment funds in the USA, Carlyle, a group that has invested heavily in the arms industry: the Bradley tanks and the missiles used in the latest war against Iraq are made by firms controlled by Carlyle… and the bin Ladens. For the latter are Bush’s associates within this investment fund.

"The World According to Bush" is based on fully verified facts and eyewitness accounts. It offers a disturbing and striking portrait of the exercise of power at the head of the world’s leading democracy, as well as of the unacceptable alliances that have been forged and that remain painstakingly concealed.

The Bushes’ feelings of total impunity have attained their peak during the professional career and the political ascension of George W. Bush. His decision to attack Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime already appears as one of the most fascinating historical and political conundrums for historians to ponder over in the coming years.

No thriller or political fiction screenplay could have imagined the workings of such an intricate plot. Unfortunately, its actors are not fictional characters but, on the contrary, a man and a team who hold the fate of the world in their hands. For the first time in the political history of the USA, a small group of people, working together for thirty years, has more or less taken over American foreign policy and totally overhauled it, silencing all opposition. Behind the proclaimed global strategy, we find not only considerable economic interests but also a possibly more disturbing aspect, a religious project that George W. Bush identifies with completely, initiated by extremists who are part of the President’s direct entourage. Religion has taken on an all-important role since his arrival at the White House.

Never before in the history of the world’s democracies have one man and his team acted with such arrogance and impunity, defying international law and creating an unprecedented grouping of interests: the project blends politics and personal interests in an atmosphere of total cynicism. The latest war against Iraq, with its totally unforeseeable consequences, hides another danger, that of seeing America launch further "civilizing" operations of a similar type, imposed by force, fired by ideas that are at best naïve and at worst totally hypocritical, calculated over a dangerously short term.

With, opposite Washington, the rest of the world confined to the part of a mere extra…

 

After being broadcasted in TV, distributed in theatres and DVD in France, The WORLD ACCORDING TO BUSH will be shown in the following countries :
-South of Africa
-Africa
-Argentina
-Australia
-Belgium
-Bolivia
-Chile
-French speaking Canada :
-Roland Smith :rsmith21@look.ca
-english speaking canada
-South Korea
-Denmark
-Spain
-Finland
-Hungary
-Ireland
-Israel
-Italy:mariateresat@gaea.it
-Middle East
-Norway
-Paraguay
-Portugal
-Romania
-Switzerland: societes.jmh@bluewin.ch
-Sweden
-Turkey
-Uruguay

In the United States, the film is now available :

- in theatres : distributed by Silver Lake Film Festival (SLFF)
silverlakefilmfestival.org
gregptacek@earthlink.net

- in DVD : distributed by Licht/Mueller Film Corporation
andylicht@aol.com
filmstoseebeforeyouvote.org

info@filmstoseebeforeyouvote.org
or directly on www.amazon.com

World sales : 2001 Audiovisuel (Groupe Telfrance)
Laetitia Recayte
Tél. : +33 1 53 78 24 00 -
Fax. : +33 1 53 78 24 03
     

Director

William KAREL

Films

Reporter-photographer / GAMMA agency (1972-1976)
Reporter-photographer / SYGMA agency (1976-1983)

2003-EUROFIPA D’OR life achievement award

• 1987 : Pialat au travail
• 1988 : De Gaulle ? Connais pas, Envoyé spécial, France 2
• 1989 : L'Argentine dans la crise, Envoyé spécial, France 2.
• 1989 : Les juifs du bout du monde, Envoyé spécial, France 2.
• 1992 : La Rafle du Vel-d'Hiv, Co-Réalisation : Blanche Finger La Marche du siècle, France 3.
• Pialat au travail
• 1992 : Les deux morts de Joseph Staline, Planète chaude, France 3.
• Bernadette
• 1993 : La Guerre du Kippour, Les Brûlures de l'Histoire, France 3.
• 1993 : Sartre-Aron : 50 ans d'histoires, Les Brûlures de l'Histoire, France 3.
• 1993 : John F. Kennedy, Les Brûlures de l'Histoire, France 3.
• 1994 : Mourir à crédit / Le FMI en Jamaïque, Grand Format, Arte.
• 1994 : La Nuit des Longs Couteaux, Les Brûlures de l'Histoire, France 3.
• 1995 : Une journée particulière : le 8 mai 1945, Les Brûlures de l'Histoire, France 3.
• 1995 : Albert Cohen (co-réalisation avec Glenio Bonder), Un Siècle d'écrivains, France 3.
• 1995 : Contre l'oubli, EMMY AWARD 1995 / PRIX EUROPA 1995 Documents, France 2.
• 1995 La mort en face, Co-réalisation avec Blanch Finger
• 1996 : Primo Levi, Un Siècle d'écrivains, France 3.
• 1996 : Mourir à Verdun, Les Dossiers de l'Histoire, France 3.
• 1996 : La Cagoule, Les Dossiers de l'Histoire, France 3.
• 1997 : Une terre deux fois promise : Israël-Palestine, Les Dossiers de l'Histoire, France 3.
• 1998  D.H Laurence
• 1999 : Histoire d'une droite extrême, Les Mercredis de l'Histoire, Arte.
• 1999 : Le Journal commence à vingt heures, La Vie en face, Arte.
• 2000 : Les Hommes de la Maison Blanche, Les Mercredis de l'Histoire, Arte.
• 2000  Hollywood
• 2001 : Conversation avec les hommes du Président, Histoire.
• 2001 : François Mitterrand. Un mensonge d'État passé sous silence, France 3.
• 2001  Parfum de fans
• 2002 : Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, le théâtre du pouvoir, Les Dossiers de l'Histoire, France 3.
• 2002 : Opération Lune, Les Mercredis de l'Histoire, Arte.
• 2003 : CIA, Guerres secrètes - 1947-1977, Opérations clandestines, Les Mercredis de l'Histoire, Arte.
• 2003 : CIA, Guerres secrètes - 1977-1989, La fin des illusions, Les Mercredis de l'Histoire, Arte.
• 2003 : CIA, Guerres secrètes - 1989-2003, D'une guerre à l'autre, Les Mercredis de l'Histoire, Arte.
• 2003  Jean Moulin. Lettres à un inconnu
• 2004 : Le Monde selon Bush, France 2 – Sortie Cinéma.
• 2005 : La Fille du Juge.
• 2006 : Poison d'Avril (film, 2006), Arte.
• 2008 : Meurtres à l'Empire State Building, Canal +.
• 2009 : Mais qui a tué Maggie ?, 2008. FIPA d'argent (2009) dans la catégorie documentaire. 

 2003 EUROPA D’OR for all his work.

Books
• William Karel, Laurent Rucker, Israël-Palestine, une terre deux fois promise, Le Rocher, Paris, 1998


 

 

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Author

Eric LAURENT

 

Eric Laurent was born on March 4th 1947.

He is graduated in law studies and passed a post-graduate degree in communication at Berkeley University, California.

As a grand reporter, specialized in Foreign affairs at Radio France, the French public radio network, he covered the main conflicts of the 70’s : 1973 Arab Israeli war, soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1979, Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

In 1979-1980, he collaborates to the writing of Jean-Jacques Servan Schreiber’s World Challenge, published in 15 countries at the same time.

1984: Expert in international studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center For International Studies in Washington
Author of La puce et les géants, an investigation on the computer revolution and intelligence war. It has been adapted for TV in France and the UK.

Since 1985: reporting on international issues at Le Figaro Magazine and exclusive interviews with prominent figures of the international scene like general Kadhafi, Saddam Hussein, David Rockefeller, Giovanni Agnelli, Ronald Reagan…
Author of La corde pour les pendre, an investigation on the connections between business and communist leaders since 1917. The US billionaire Armand Hammer was feared of the revelations of the book and tried unsuccessfully to avoid its publication.

1990: Author with Pierre Salinger of “secret Dossier : the hidden agenda behind the Gulf war”

1993: Author of “la mémoire d’un roi”, based on exclusive interviews with Hassan 2nd

1994: Author with Marek Hater of Les Fous de la Paix, an investigation on Oslo agreement and the genesis of Arab Israeli peace process.

2003: Author of La Guerre des Bush and Le monde secret de Bush, both present in best-sellers charts

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Press article

Communiqué de presse : Flach Film signe un accord avec Dailymotion pour la protection de son catalogue sur la plateforme
february 25 2008
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GOOGLE FINED FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT OF THE FILM « THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BUSH » DIRECTED BY WILLIAM KAREL.
february 20 2008
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World According to Bush - Hitting U.S. Theaters Ahead of Nov. 2 Election
october 25 2004
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Le monde selon Bush, l'avis d'Elisabeth Quin - Paris premiere
july 01 2004
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press cuttings / 29 juin 2004
june 29 2004
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Article
june 25 2004
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Frenchman takes own stab at Bush / hollywoodreporter / Shiraz Sidhva / 24-06-2004
june 24 2004
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Le monde selon Bush France / Ecran noir / 2004 / Sortie France le 23 juin 2004
june 23 2004
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«La liste des mensonges et manipulations de Bush est impressionnante» / Libération / chat sur internet
june 23 2004
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Le règne du mensonge - Jean-paul Taillardas-Sud-Ouest-Jeudi 17 juin 2004
june 22 2004
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Article
june 21 2004
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Réquisitoire contre Bush - Un dossier accablant - Francis Cornu - Le monde télévision-12 juin 2004
june 19 2004
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William Karel :
june 18 2004
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William Karel revient sur les mille premiers jours de la présidence américaine France 2 Bush, la «marionnette» / Lefigaro /Isabelle Nataf/18-06-2004
june 18 2004
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Un budget de 500 000 euros et huit mois de tournage - Propose recueillis par Catherine Humblot - Le monde télévision-12 juin 2004
june 17 2004
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Du 11 septembre 2001 à la guerre d'Irak - Odile Tessier - le point 17/06/04
june 17 2004
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Article
june 17 2004
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Bush - Editorial de Sophie Dacbert - Le film français - 11 juin 2004
june 16 2004
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Le Monde selon Bush
june 15 2004
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The hidden face of George Bush
february 01 2004
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Interview

Interview with William Karel on the film THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BUSH
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Interview with Eric Laurent on the film THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BUSH
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Interview with Jean-François Lepetit about the film THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BUSH
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