Jean Epstein

Jean Epstein was born in Warsaw on 25 March 1897, to a French father and a Polish mother. He spent his adolescence in Switzerland, then came to Lyon, where he studied medicine, which he abandoned for cinema and literature. He made his first feature film in 1922 and became one of the figures of the French avant-garde. From the end of the twenties, he shot in Brittany, on the islands, with non-professional performers. Under the Occupation, targeted as a Jew, he was for a time arrested by the Gestapo. He died in Paris in April 1953.

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• CinemaThe Fall of the House of UsherLa Chute de la maison UsherJean Epstein · 1928Cinema