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Jean Vigo was the short-transient French film director, who helped in the establishment of poetic realism in film in the 1930s and went on to exist as the posthumous influence on the French nouvelle vague of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Natural in 26 April, 1905, to Emily Clero and a prominant activist anarchist Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo, (who adopted a title Miguel Almereyda - an anagram of "y'a la merde", which translates when "there is shit"). Tremendously of his early life was spent on the dog by having his parents. His father, world health organization was imprisoned, was strangled inside his cell inside Frenes Prison on the night of 13 August 1917. It wwhen believed to keep around been a doing of a authorities, as Almereyda experienced earliest that day asked to speak to his attorney, world health organization flow from to look at him the as a result day. A immature Vigo was afterward sent to boarding school under an assumed title, Jean Sales, to conceal his identity.

He is noted for deuce crucial films which significantly affected a first development of each French & globe cinema: Zéro de Conduite (1933) and ''L'Atalante (1934).

He as well processed ii more films: A Propos de Nice: Point de Vue Documentée (1929), a extremely insurgent silent film examining social inequity within 1920s Nice and the film Taris'' (1931), an elegant motion study of swimmer Jean Taris.

His films st& been depicted by a bit of & sure when shooting by contemporaneous political administrations as existence disloyal and were consequently heavy censored per French government.

Jean Vigo
Biography and filmography of the director's short career from the Internet Movie Database.

Jean Vigo
Biography, filmography, and bibliography.


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