Georges Franju

Georges Franju was born in Fougères on 12 April 1912. After a few office and factory jobs, he learned the trade of set designer and worked for the theatre and the music hall. In 1936 he founded the Cinémathèque française with Henri Langlois. He first became known for documentary shorts, one of them shot in the Paris slaughterhouses, and moved on to fiction feature films in 1958. He died in Paris on 5 November 1987.

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• CinemaEyes Without a FaceLes Yeux sans visageGeorges Franju · 1960Cinema