Public Telephone
1980, French. Directed by Jean-Marie Périer.
Téléphone is a great success story in French rock: 300,000 albums sold in 1979. The group was born on December 16, 1976, at a surprise concert at the American Center in Paris. Four instrumentalists, four self-taught, four musicians untroubled by the successive waves of fashions from across the Atlantic and the Channel: Jean-Louis Aubert, singer and songwriter; Louis Bertignac, guitarist; Richard Kolinka, drummer; Corinne Marienneau, bassist. From titles: “Métro c'est trop”, “La bombe humaine”, “Crache ton venin”... Portraits and interviews, trances and crowd-pleasers at the Palais des Sports and the Fete de l'Humanité, a look behind the scenes. Jean-Marie Périer, with seven cameras in hand, now captures the phenomenon in a feature-length film. Camera movements, editing on a giant triple screen and Dolby Stereo sound all serve to highlight the quartet's harmony and vitality.
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- French
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- Released
- 24 May 1980
- Original title
- Téléphone public
- Country
- France
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Public Telephone runs 100 minutes (1h 40m).
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Public Telephone isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 24 May 1980. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed Public Telephone?
Public Telephone (1980) was directed by Jean-Marie Périer and stars Jean-Louis Aubert, Corine Marienneau, Richard Kolinka.