Georges Franju - Le visionnaire

Georges Franju - Le visionnaire

1998 · 50 min · ★ 7.0 · Documentary

Made for "Cinéma, de notre temps" series. Interview with Georges Franju (1912-1987), a figure of immense importance in the history of French cinema, not primarily for his films (exceptional though many of these are) but for being the co-founder, with Henri Langlois, of the Cinémathèque Française in 1936, France's most famous and important film archive.

Directed by André S. Labarthe

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