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Filmmaker · Belgium

Ernst Moerman

Died in 1944

Ernst Moerman was born in 1897 and was a lawyer. Linked to the Paris Surrealists in the twenties, an admirer of Cocteau, he was close to Magritte, whose works he collected. He wrote poems and plays, and Samuel Beckett translated one of his texts into English. He directed only one film. His most quoted line fits in a single sentence: since happiness does not exist, let us try to be happy without it. He died in 1944; his poetic work was gathered in a volume in 1970.

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