Jean Grémillon

Personal Info

Known For Directing

Known Credits 33

Gender Male

Birthday March 4, 1898

Day of Death November 25, 1959 (61 years old)

Place of Birth Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

Also Known As

  • Jean Gremillon

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Biography

Jean Grémillon was a French film director.

After directing a number of documentaries during the 1920s, many now lost, Grémillon had his first substantial success with the dramatic feature Maldone in 1928. Over the next quarter-century, he directed twenty more feature films, of which he is best known for five made between 1937 and 1944: Gueule d'amour (1937), L'Étrange M. Victor (1938), Remorques (1941), Lumière d'été (1943), and Le Ciel est à vous (1944), all but the first starring Madeleine Renaud.

Grémillon rejected what he referred to as "mechanical naturalism" in favor of "the discovery of that subtlety which the human eye does not perceive directly but which must be shown by establishing the harmonies, the unknown relations, between objects and beings; it is a vivifying, inexhaustible source of images that strike our imaginations and enchant our hearts."

He died on November 25, 1959 in Paris, France.

Directing

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Writing

1958
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1934
1934
1926
1926

Acting

1978
1952
1949

Sound

1958
1928

Editing

1937
1923

Camera

1945

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