Jules Dassin

Jules Dassin was born in 1911 in Connecticut, the son of a Jewish barber from Russia, and grew up in New York. He came from Yiddish theatre and moved to Hollywood, where he made films noirs, one of them shot entirely in the streets of New York. Denounced as a communist in 1951, he was blacklisted and remained without work for five years. He returned by way of France with a heist film whose central scene is without dialogue, then settled in Greece, where he made films with the actress he married, who would become her country's minister of Culture. He died in Athens in 2008.

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• CinemaNight and the CityJules Dassin · 1950Cinema