Jean Epstein
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1897-03-25 (56 years old)
Deathday
1953-04-02
Place of Birth
Warszawa, Russian Empire [now Poland]
Also known As
Жан Эпштейн
Jean Epstein
Biography
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 father died in 1908, the family relocated to Switzerl...
Acting
1978
as (archival footage)
2011
as Self (archive footage)
Production
1928
as Producer
1928
as Director
1928
as Writer
1923
as Director
1923
as Writer
1927
as Adaptation
1927
as Director
1924
as Writer
1924
as Director
1947
as Director
1929
as Director
1930
as Screenplay
1929
as Writer
1923
as Director
1924
as Director
1933
as Director
1926
as Director
1922
as Director
1932
as Director
1925
as Director
1925
as Director
1925
as Executive Producer
1934
as Writer
1930
as Director
2016
as Director
1925
as Director
1927
as Director
1922
as Director
1926
as Director
1931
as Director
1934
as Director
1932
as Director
1932
as Director
1930
as Director
1931
as Director
1932
as Director
1936
as Director
1938
as Director
1938
as Director
1937
as Director
1932
as Writer
1938
as Writer
1931
as Writer
1926
as Producer
1953
as Director
1932
as Writer
1932
as Writer
1927
as Producer
1924
as Editor
1925
as Writer
1926
as Writer
1933
as Screenplay
1948
as Director
1947
as Writer
1934
as Director
1933
as Director
1923
as Director
1929
as Director
1938
as Director
2021
as Original Story
1938
as Writer
1924
as Screenplay
1923
as Screenplay
1939
as Director
1924
as Editor
1925
as Director
1938
as Director
1936
as Director
1935
as Director
1935
as Dialogue
1924
as Director
1936
as Director
1936
as Producer
1925
as Writer
1929
as Writer
1947
as Editor
2010
as Director
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