Jean Epstein
Film director
1897 – 1953
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Who was Jean Epstein?
Jean Epstein was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, Epstein directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. He is often associated with French Impressionist Cinema and the concept of photogénie.
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- Born
- Mar 25, 1897
Warsaw - Siblings
- Nationality
- Poland
- France
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 2, 1953
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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