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Filmmakers · Belgium

Henri Storck and Paul Haesaerts

Died in 1999

Henri Storck was born in Ostend in 1907 and shot his first films there at the end of the twenties. In 1933, he made with Joris Ivens a film on the misery of the miners of the Borinage, banned in several countries. He co-founded the Cinémathèque of Belgium in 1938, devoted several films to painters, including Paul Delvaux, made some seventy films in all and died in 1999. Paul Haesaerts (1901-1974), a painter, architect and art critic, made his debut as a filmmaker at his request.

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