Pierre Roche

In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes.

Charles Aznavour talks to Jacques Chancel, evoking happy memories such as the pain au chocolat at tea time, or Graziella, his first love at the age of 12. The singer talks about his career, his admiration for Trenet and Brassens, and his marriage, “a happy and definitive stopover”. These confidences are interspersed with excerpts from concerts and rehearsals.

Director Claude André Lalande illustrates the theme of three songs in images. We see and hear in turn Roland Gerbeau "Himalaya", Jacqueline François "From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter" and Jean Marco "The Ghost of Aunt Anna". This mini musical is one of the ancestors of music videos.

Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won't bother him anymore with this other girl, a rich one, she wants to see her son married to.