Henri Storck
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Henri Storck (1907, Ostend – 17 September 1999) was a Belgian author, film-maker and documentarist.
In 1933, he directed, with Joris Ivens, Misère au Borinage, a film about the miners in the Borinage area. In 1938, with Andre Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen, he founded the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Royal Belgian Film Archive). He was an actor in two key films of the history of the cinema: Jean Vigo's Zéro de conduite (1933) in the role of the priest, and Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quay Commercial, 1080 Brussels (1976) in the role of a customer of the prostitute.
Jacqueline Aubenas wrote about him, in her expository work, It's been going on for 100 years: a history of the francophone cinema of Belgium: "There emerges forcefully the personality of a cineaste who is not a militant in the sense that this term had in the 1930s for Soviet directors who held an ideology, but in the sense of a generous man who will never choose the wrong side and who will be, in ethics as well as in esthetics, in the first line of battle".
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| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1981 |
| Birthday | 1907-09-05 |
| Place of Birth | Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium |
| Also Known As |
1976
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
7.361/385
A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and rece...
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
2010
Les variations Dielman
0/0
Found footage using Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman.
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Les variations Dielman
1986
Henri Storck, cineast
9/1
Documentary about the Belgian (documentary) filmmaker Henri Storck.
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Henri Storck, cineast
1980
Ciné-mafia
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Three pioneers of documentary filmmaking – Joris Ivens, Henri Storck, and the man behind the camera, Jean Rouch – recall the early days of the documen...
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Ciné-mafia
1959
Stars Meet in Moscow
0/0
Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign acto...
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Stars Meet in Moscow
2013
My Conversations on Film
3.2/6
This distinctly personal journey into the artistic possibilities of independent film is not to be missed. Jonas Mekas, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Krame...
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My Conversations on Film
1990
Janssen & Janssens draaien een film
7/1
A documentary celebrating 25 years of flemish subsidised cinema.
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Janssen & Janssens draaien een film
1933
Zero for Conduct
6.91/261
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
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