FILM DIRECTOR

Jean Rouch

1917 - 2004

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Jean Rouch (French: [ʁuʃ]; 31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered one of the founders of cinéma vérité in France. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker, for over 60 years in Africa, was characterized by the idea of shared anthropology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Rouch has received more than 264,484 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Rouch is the 335th most popular film director (down from 272nd in 2019), the 1,967th most popular biography from France (down from 1,649th in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jean Rouch ranks 335 out of 2,041. Before him are Jane Campion, Gustav Ucicky, Samuel Fuller, Jan de Bont, William Kennedy Dickson, and Anthony Minghella. After him are Chen Kaige, Claude Sautet, Sofia Coppola, Tobe Hooper, Arthur Cohn, and Henry King.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Jean Rouch ranks 92. Before him are Ko Arima, Hirokazu Ninomiya, Nikolai Ogarkov, Otto Kittel, Will Eisner, and Zhang Chunqiao. After him are Atle Selberg, Harold Garfinkel, Augusto Roa Bastos, Buddy Rich, Charlotte Salomon, and Jânio Quadros. Among people deceased in 2004, Jean Rouch ranks 80. Before him are Rafael Eitan, Marco Pantani, Masanori Tokita, Harold Shipman, Miki Matsubara, and Serge Reggiani. After him are Uta Hagen, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Boris Trajkovski, Irina Press, Miklós Fehér, and Jerry Orbach.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Rouch ranks 1,967 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1669), Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay (1740), William Kennedy Dickson (1860), François Girardon (1628), David d'Angers (1788), and Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (1557). After him are Félix Gouin (1884), Richard, Duke of Burgundy (858), Peter the Venerable (1092), Pierre Plantard (1920), Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750), and Adrien Manglard (1695).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Jean Rouch ranks 39. Before him are Julien Duvivier (1896), Germaine Dulac (1882), Just Jaeckin (1940), Philippe de Broca (1933), Francis Veber (1937), and William Kennedy Dickson (1860). After him are Claude Sautet (1924), Jean Girault (1924), Guy Hamilton (1922), François Ozon (1967), Jacques Audiard (1952), and Jacques Doillon (1944).

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Filmography

Chronicle of a Summer
Director
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.
Oct 20o 19617.2 / 10
The Mad Masters
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The subject of the film was the Hauka movement. The Hauka movement consisted of mimicry and dancing to become possessed by French Colonial administrators. The participants performed the same elaborate military ceremonies of their colonial occupiers, but in more of a trance than true recreation.
Aug 24o 19556.208 / 10
The Year 01
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The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable. Probably: water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the TSF to say "This is not the end of the world, this is an 01, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics". The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 01. The Year 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.
Feb 22o 19736.5 / 10