Naufragé volontaire
The Voyage of the Hérétique
Didier Nion
Adventure | France | 2017 | 1h33
Alain is dying on a rubber boat, alone in the middle of the ocean. He tries in vain to formulate his last wills aloud, but his body and his mind are about to let go. 50 days earlier, on October 18, 1952, Alain was leaving the Canary Islands aboard his boat, "The Heretic", for a crossing of the Atlantic and to prove to the world that a castaway can survive at sea without food or reserves of water. This film is inspired by the adventure attempted in 1952 by Alain Bombard.
Jérémie Lippmann et Jamie Sives
Didier Nion was born in 1959 in Petit-Quevilly in Seine-Maritime. After obtaining a carpenter's degree, he became chief machinist and operator for film and television.
In this context, he worked alongside directors such as Claude Sautet, Luc Besson, Amos Gitaï, Pierre Etaix, Josiane Balasko, Bertrand Bonello ... After having participated in many films as director of photography, in the mid-1990s , he went making documentaries. His films have been selected in numerous festivals: at the General Estates of documentary films in Lussas, and at the festivals of Cannes, Rome, Locarno, São Paulo, Tiburon, Chicago ... Since the beginning of the 2000s, he has been involved in some important cinema schools as La Fémis, ENS Louis-Lumière or ÉCAL in Lausanne. As a crewman, he has crossed the Atlantic Ocean many times.
