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Republic of the Congo

Filmmaker · Republic of the Congo

Jean-Michel Tchissoukou

Died in 1987

Jean-Michel Tchissoukou was born in 1942 in Pointe-Noire. After the baccalauréat, he studied in France, at the Office de coopération radiophonique and the Institut national de l'audiovisuel, from which he graduated as a cameraman and photographer. Back in Congo, he worked for about ten years at national television, then was seconded to the national film office, where he directed his first film, a medium-length film, in 1970. He died in Brazzaville in December 1987.

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