Jean Vigo

Jean Vigo was born in Paris on 26 April 1905, the son of the anarchist militant who signed himself Almereyda. After a wandering childhood, he was placed as a boarder at the lycée of Millau under an assumed name. In January 1929 he married Élisabeth Lozinska, known as Lydou. In four years, from 1930 to 1934, he made only four films, including a medium-length film about a boarding school that the censors banned until after the war. He died in Paris on 5 October 1934, at the age of twenty-nine. A film prize has borne his name since 1951.

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• CinemaL'AtalanteJean Vigo · 1934Cinema