Joris Ivens

Joris Ivens was born in 1898 in Nijmegen, into a family in the photography trade. An engineer by training, he left the family business for the cinema and became known at the end of the twenties through two avant-garde short films that earned him, as early as 1930, an international reputation. A committed documentary maker on every front of the century, he worked for sixty years, in some thirty countries, and died in Paris in 1989.

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• Short filmRainRegenJoris Ivens · 1929Cinema