
A Baptism of Fire
2015, French. Directed by Jérôme Clément-Wilz.
'As it gets harder to sell pictures, we take greater and greater risks,' explains Corentin Fohlen. A war correspondent still in his twenties, Fohlen is part of a new generation of freelance journalists who fly to war zones from Libya to Afghanistan on their own dime in the hope of selling images to news media outlets.
- Runtime
- 0h 52m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- French
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- Released
- 5 February 2015
- Original title
- Un baptême du feu
- Country
- France
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Who directed A Baptism of Fire?
A Baptism of Fire (2015) was directed by Jérôme Clément-Wilz.