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Filmmaker · France

René Clément

Died in 1996

René Clément was born in Bordeaux on 18 March 1913. After studying architecture at the École des beaux-arts, he made a short film with Jacques Tati in 1936, then, until the war, documentaries in North Africa and the Middle East. Having moved on to feature films after the Liberation, he received the prize for direction at the first Cannes Film Festival, in 1946, and was subsequently awarded the Oscar for best foreign film several times. He died in Monaco on 17 March 1996.

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