Jean Epstein

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Jean Epstein (French: [ɛp.ʃtajn]; 25 March 1897 – 2 April 1953) 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, he 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. Epstein was born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (then a part of Russian Empire) to a French-Jewish father and Polish mother. After his fat…

  • Directing
  • Born 25 March 1897
  • Died 2 April 1953 (age 56)
  • Warszawa, Russian Empire [now Poland]
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Most-watched Jean Epstein films currently: The Woman at the End of the World (1938), The Red Inn (1923), The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), Cœur fidèle (1923), The Lady of Lebanon (1934).

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