Jacques Becker

Jacques Becker was born in Paris on 15 September 1906; his mother ran a fashion house. As a teenager he met Jean Renoir through the Cézanne family, and became his assistant in 1932, on a series of films from the thirties. Taken prisoner by the Germans, he spent about a year in captivity, then directed thirteen feature films between 1942 and 1960. He died in Paris on 21 February 1960, aged fifty-three.

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• CinemaLe TrouJacques Becker · 1960Cinema