Name: France: The Tragedy of Lurs
Released: 2003-04-12

Around the World with Orson Welles

S1 · E7 — France: The Tragedy of Lurs

S1:E7 · France: The Tragedy of Lurs

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7 episodes in this season

Pays Basque I: The Basque Countries

26 min

Pays Basque II: La Pelote Basque

26 min

Revisiting Vienna

26 min

Saint-Germain-des-Pres

26 min

London: The Queen's Pensioners

26 min

Spain: The Bullfight

26 min

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France: The Tragedy of Lurs

Season 1 · Episode 7 · Apr 12, 2003

The Dominici affair is a criminal case that occurred in France in the mid-20th century, which gave rise to detailed counter-investigations, emblematic of investigative journalism. On the night of August 4 to 5, 1952, three Englishmen, Sir Jack Drummond, a 61-year-old scientist, his wife Anne Wilbraham, 45, and their 10-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were murdered near their car near La Grand. 'Terre, the farm of the Dominici family, in the town of Lurs in the Basses-Alpes (current Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). Patriarch Gaston Dominici was accused of the triple murder and sentenced to death in 1954. In 1957, President René Coty commuted the death sentence and on July 14, 1960, General de Gaulle pardoned and released Gaston Dominici. The affair was followed by numerous journalists, both French and foreign. The episode was ultimately unfinished, but French filmmaker Christophe Cognet recovered his materials and reconstructed the documentary for TV5 broadcast in 2003.

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Around the World with Orson Welles

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France: The Tragedy of Lurs

Season 1 · Episode 7 · Apr 12, 2003

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