Gérard de Boe

Gérard De Boe was born in 1904. A schoolteacher, then a health officer in the Belgian administration in the Congo from 1927, he began in 1937 to film the living conditions of the colony as an amateur and became the official filmmaker of the State the following year. After the war he resigned to found his own production company and made a great many documentaries. With André Cauvin and Ernest Genval, he is counted among the three major figures of Belgian colonial cinema. He died in March 1960.

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• CinemaEn 50 ansGérard de Boe · 1958Cinema