Dorcel also known as Marc Dorcel Video Marc Dorcel or VMD is a pornographic film production company founded by Marc Dorcel in 1979 and managed by his son Grégory Dorcel Since 2002 when the traditional video market collapsed the company has modernized its content by launching platforms such as Dorcelvision com Dorcelle com Dorcel Store and the Dorcel TV channel The company began producing 360-degree films in 2015 after investing in virtual reality In 2020 the group is embroiled in a controversy following the indictment of two producers working for the brand for rape aggravated pimping and human trafficking as well as an intervention by tax authorities targeting its production manager who is suspected of tax evasion - The start Marc Dorcel the son of a Hungarian tailor was born on March 27 1934 in Paris and began his career at the age of 17 as an industrial designer then as a technical sales representative in a sewing machine company After his military service he returned to his original job and in 1965 with the financial support of his parents he founded Transports Dorcel In 1968 Marc Dorcel began selling erotic books by mail order and eventually became a publisher He publishes Ursula which quickly becomes a best-seller in its field selling over 20 000 copies in less than three months However the seventeenth correctional chamber forbids its distribution sale and advertising for contempt of good morals The craze for erotic works waned in the early 1970s but there was still a market for erotic photo novels which are American magazines imported into France and retouched the sexes and pubic hair are masked by crudely drawn underwear Marc Dorcel creates the first ref necessary French erotic photo-novel in color which sold for 140 francs Marc Dorcel then branched out into video establishing the Vidéo Marc Dorcel brand. Marc Dorcel's first X film Jolies Petites Garces was produced and directed in 1979 the year the eponymous company was founded. Marilyn Jess Julia Perrin and Piotr Stanislas star in this 53-minute pornographic video. More than 4 000 VHS cassettes of the film are available in sex shops for 500 francs each ref. Important. This popularity can be explained by the context of the time on October 30 1975 the law governing X films had just been passed. They were previously shown in theaters but are now only available in specialized theaters. Because of this law the X video was a success. Between 1980 and 1983 Dorcel produced and directed over 15 films. Canal began airing Dorcel films in 1985. Many French and international pornographic actresses including Katsuni Anissa Kate Tarra White Mia Malkova and many others shoot for Dorcel productions and the company signed the first exclusive contract with an actress who became brand ambassador Laure Sinclair in 1995 This is the beginning of the Dorcel Girls actresses who shoot exclusively for the brand Dorcel released the first French interactive CDROM in 1995 and in 1998 the company released the first multilingual French X-rated DVD for Le Parfum de Mathilde the first European blockbuster to be distributed in the United States Grégory Dorcel joins the company in 1996 and takes over as CEO a few years later The porn industry experienced a major upheaval in the early 2000s with amateur films being broadcast for free on Internet platforms In two years the DVD market collapsed dropping from 70 to 30 of the company's turnover To compete with free video Dorcel pursued a diversification strategy becoming an audiovisual group Dorcel is interested in the female market and is counting on Ovidie a director to create the first X film for women in 2001 Dorcel TV the company's television channel debuted in March 2006 and the first Dorcel Store in France opened the following year In 2007 the company overtook the position of the leading European aggregator of VOD IPTV and cable programming