Marcel Ichac

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-11-22 (88 years old)

Deathday

1994-04-09

Place of Birth

Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Marcel Ichac

Biography

Marcel Ichac, born October 22, 1906 in Rueil-Malmaison (Seine-et-Oise) and died April 9, 1994 in Ézanville (Val-d'Oise), was a French filmmaker, photographer, explorer, and mountaineer. He was the brother of Pierre Ichac (1901-1978). "A great master of documentary filmmaking," according to historian Jean Tulard, Marcel Ichac is particularly considered "the greatest filmmaker specializing in mountain films in France and undoubtedly in the world" of his generation by Georges Sadoul. Initially a skier and mountaineer, a great witness to French mountaineering, Marcel Ichac went on to become, through the diversity of the spaces he explored, the f...

Production

1952

Greenland

as Director

1959

Stars at Noon

as Director

1948

Diving Logs

as Director

1937

Karakoram

as Director

1966

1955

1952

Greenland

as Cinematography

1956

The Silent World

as Producer

1959

Stars at Noon

as Producer

1959

Stars at Noon

as Writer

1937

Karakoram

as Cinematography

1953

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