Directed credits
68
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Very extensive directing filmography.
Director
Jean Rouch
Directing
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Directed movies: 68Directed series: 0All crew credits: 70
TMDB ID: 238960
IMDb ID: nm0745541
Known for: Directing
Born: May 31, 1917
Died: February 18, 2004
Age: 86
Place of birth: Paris, France
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1947 - 2017
Years active: 71
Average TMDB rating: 6.93
Wikidata: Q166405
Also known as
장 루슈
Frequent jobs
Director (67)Co-Director (1)Property Builder (1)Writer (1)
Biography
Jean Rouch (French: [ʁuʃ]; 31 May 1917, Paris – 18 February 2004, Niger) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered to be one of the founders of cinéma-vérité in France, which shared the aesthetics of the direct cinema. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker for over sixty years in Africa, was characterized by the idea of shared anthropology. Influenced by his discovery of surrealism in his early twenties, many of his films blur the line between fiction and documentary, creating a new style of ethnofiction. He was also hailed by the French New Wave as one of theirs. His seminal film Me a Black (Moi, un noir) pioneered the technique of jump cut popularized by Jean-Luc Godard. Godard said of Rouch in the Cahiers du Cinéma (Notebooks on Cinema) n°94 April 1959, "In charge of research for the Musée de l'Homme (French, "Museum of Man") Is there a better definition for a filmmaker?" Along his career, Rouch was no stranger to controversy.
Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Jean Rouch.
A Friendly Handshake
Director
1997 Movie
Germaine et ses copains
Director
1996 Movie
Germaine chez elle
Director
1994 Movie
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
Director
1992 Movie
5.8
Brise-glace
Director
1990 Movie
7.5
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
Director
1987 Movie
Cousin, cousine
Director
1987 Movie
9.0
Enigma
Director
1986 Movie
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
Director
1986 Movie
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
Director
1983 Movie
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
Director
1979 Movie
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
Director
1978 Movie
8.0
Makwayela
Director
1977 Movie
8.0
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
Director
1977 Movie
5.5
Badye, the Storyteller
Director
1977 Movie
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
Director
1977 Movie
5.0
Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
Director
1976 Movie
Zomo et ses frères
Director
1975 Movie
6.4
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
Director
1974 Movie
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
Director
1974 Movie
The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
Director
1974 Movie
6.4
The Year 01
Co-Director
1973 Movie
6.3
VW-Voyou
Director
1973 Movie
Boukoki
Director
1973 Movie
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6.7
Jaguar
Director
1967 Movie
7.1
Chronicle of a Summer
Director
1961 Movie
6.4
The Year 01
Co-Director
1973 Movie
6.3
VW-Voyou
Director
1973 Movie
That Tender Age
Director
1964 Movie
5.8
Brise-glace
Director
1990 Movie
4.3
Son of Gascogne
as Self
1995 Movie
5.0
Mammy Water
Director
1953 Movie
Cousin, cousine
Director
1987 Movie
6.5
Six in Paris
Director
1965 Movie
Sodankylä Forever
as Self
2010 Movie
8.8
Horendi
Director
1972 Movie
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Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Jean Rouch.
L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
2017 Movie
3.2
My Conversations on Film
as Himself
2013 Movie
Freddy Buache, le cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
2012 Movie
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2011 Movie
Sodankylä Forever
as Self
2010 Movie
7.3
The Dreamed Films
as Self
2010 Movie
Portrait de Jean Rouch
as Self
2004 Movie
Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
as Lui-même
2004 Movie
Encountering Jean Rouch
2003 Movie
Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
as Self
2000 Movie
6.0
Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
as Himself
1999 Movie
Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
as narrador
1999 Movie