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  • Watch Online / Claude Bez, le 13ième homme (2016)



    Desc: Claude Bez, le 13ième homme: Directed by Laurent Pedebernard, Laurent Tournebise. With Frédéric Kneip. The film retraces the extraordinary career of this picturesque accountant, who upset the codes and conventions of his time, forever revolutionizing the world of football. This documentary invites you to relive the story of Claude Bez, former president of the Girondins de Bordeaux club (1978-1990) who reigned over French football in the 1980s. Through this documentary, twenty years of his life are related, from 1978 to 1998. A domination called into question by the arrival of a fierce competitor, Bernard Tapie, ambitious buyer of Olympique de Marseille. Harder will then be the fall for Claude Bez. A visionary president, he led, among other things, the battle for "television" rights, the cornerstone on which the financing of French football today rests. Archive images and interviews enrich this film, in particular thanks to the exclusive testimonies of former players or relatives such as Alain Giresse, Jean-Michel Aulas, Dominique Dropsy, Jean Tigana or even Gernot Rohr. A film offering the portrait of a mythical man from a human angle.