Jean Rouch
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Jean Rouch (31 May 1917 - 18 February 2004) was a French motion-picture director and ethnologist.
His films mostly belonged to the [[Cinema v�rit�|cin�ma v�rit�]] school � a label that Rouch himself coined � and dealt with African subjects.
He was killed in an automobile accident in Niger.
Main feature-length films
- 1955: Les Fils de l'eau
- 1957: Jaguar
- 1958: Moi un noir
- 1959: La pyramide humaine
- 1965: La chasse au lion � l'arc
- 1974: Cocorico M. Poulet
- 1979: Bougo, les fun�railles du vieil Ana�
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Jean_Rouch" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rouch, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
