Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean-Pierre Grumbach was born in Paris on 20 October 1917, into an Alsatian Jewish family. Mobilised in 1939, he then joined the Free French, took during the war the name Melville in homage to the American novelist Herman Melville, and fought in the Italian campaign. After the war, he became an independent filmmaker and shot in his own studio, rue Jenner, in Paris. He directed thirteen feature films in twenty-five years. He died in Paris on 2 August 1973.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaArmy of ShadowsL'Armée des ombresJean-Pierre Melville · 1969Cinema