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Jean Rouch

Highest Rated: 76% Six in Paris (1965)

Lowest Rated: 76% Six in Paris (1965)

Birthday: May 31, 1917

Birthplace: Paris, France

Ethnographer who began using film to record African rituals and customs in 1947. Rouch documented several aspects of African life before developing an interest in the film medium itself and experimenting with techniques which would later become central to cinema verite. Rouch's "Chronicle of a Summer" (1961) is seen by many as marking the beginning of the verite movement; co-directed by sociologist Edgar Morin, it used the new lightweight film equipment to capture the diversity and variety of Parisian life. Rouch later returned to filming African subjects, frequently addressing the conflicts between European and African cultures.

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Highest rated movies

76% 70% Six in Paris
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Babatu
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71% The Human Pyramid
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Madame l'eau
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Jaguar
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Little by Little
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The Lion Hunters
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Brise-Glace
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Mammy Water
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71% Chronicle of a Summer -- Paris, 1960
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Madame l'eau Director,
Screenwriter,
Cinematographer
- 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Brise-Glace Director,
Cinematographer
- 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Babatu Director - 1976
No Score Yet 76% The Year 01 Director - 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Little by Little Director,
Screenwriter,
Cinematographer
- 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lion Hunters Director,
Cinematographer
- 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jaguar Director - 1967
76% 70% Six in Paris Director $13.9K 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Punishment Director,
Writer
- 1962
No Score Yet 71% The Human Pyramid Director,
Screenwriter
- 1961
No Score Yet 71% Chronicle of a Summer -- Paris, 1960 Director - 1961
No Score Yet 77% Moi, un Noir Director,
Screenwriter
- 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mammy Water Director - 1955