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Jean Grémillon
Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
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 dramati…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1958
André Masson and the Four Elements
Movie Director
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1956
Haute-Lisse
Movie Original Music Composer
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1955
The House of Images
Movie Director
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1954
In the Heart of the Ile de France
Movie Director
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1953
The Love of a Woman
Movie Director
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1952
Alchemy
Movie Writer
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1952
Astrology or the mirror of life
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1951
The Strange Madame X
Movie Director
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1949
The Charms of Life
Movie Narrator
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1949
White Paws
Movie Director
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1949
Les désastres de la guerre
Movie Director
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1947
The Sixth of June at Dawn
Movie Director
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1944
The Woman Who Dared
Movie Director
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1943
Summer Light
Movie Director
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1941
Stormy Waters
Movie Director
More credits
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1938
The Strange Monsieur Victor
Movie Director
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1937
Lady Killer
Movie Director
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1937
Guard! Alert!
Movie Director
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1936
Les pattes de mouche
Movie Director
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1936
The Royal Waltz
Movie Director
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1934
Gonzague
Movie Director
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1934
La Dolorosa
Movie Director
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1932
Dainah the Mixed
Movie Director
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1932
For One Cent's Worth of Love
Movie Director
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1930
Little Lise
Movie Director
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1929
The Lighthouse Keepers
Movie Director
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1928
Misdeal
Movie Original Music Composer
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1926
Un tour au large
Movie Director
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1926
La vie des travailleurs italiens en France
Movie Director
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1926
Essais au bord de la mer
Movie Director
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1926
Casting Ella Maillart
Movie Director
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1924
La photogénie mécanique
Movie Director
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1923
Chartres
Movie Director
