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Jean Epstein

French film director, essayist and novelist (1897-1953) · France · On the map · Directors · Died at 56

Jean Epstein was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist.

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1953Died2 April 19531947The Storm-TamerFilm, Director, Writer1939Artères de FranceFilm, Director1937Vive la vieFilm, Director1936Heart of TrampFilm, Director1934La Vie d'un grand journalFilm, Director1933Gold of the SeasFilm, Director1931Notre-Dame de ParisFilm, Director1930Le pas de la muleFilm, Director1928The Fall of the House of UsherFilm, Director, Writer1927Six and a Half by ElevenFilm, Director, Producer1925Double LoveFilm, Director, Writer1924La Belle NivernaiseFilm, Director, Writer1922Les vendangesFilm, Director1897Born25 March 1897

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Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, he directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. He is often associated with French Impressionist Cinema and the concept of photogénie.

Country
France
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1897 to 1953 · aged 56

In the same film or series as Jean

Pierre BenoitAlso in The Lady of Lebanon (1934)Paul MorandAlso in The Three-Sided Mirror (1927)Abel GanceAlso in The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

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