Pierre Chenal
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1904-12-05 (86 years old)
Deathday
1990-12-23
Place of Birth
Bruxelles, Belgique
Also known As
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Pierre Chenal
Biography
Philippe Cohen, known as Pierre Chenal, is a French director, born December 5, 1904 in Brussels and died December 23, 1990 in La Garenne-Colombes. Chenal occupies an uncomfortable place in the history of French cinema: relatively unknown, he is cataloged as a filmmaker who left only a light body of work. His detailed filmography, however, tends to show the opposite. Made in the 1930s, his first short films were documentaries where the filmmaker used social realism. The Little Trades of Paris (1932) or A French City of Cinema had a didactic ambition which ranked him among the innovators at the time. Throughout his work, Pierre Chenal will ma...
Acting
1929
as Self
Production
1952
as Screenplay
1970
as Director
1946
as Director
1939
as Director
1938
as Director
1937
as Director
1935
as Director
1963
as Director
1963
as Writer
1930
as Writer
1930
as Cinematography
1931
as Director
1931
as Writer
1931
as Producer
1937
as Director
1958
as Director
1956
as Director
1951
as Director
1946
as Director
1934
as Director
1956
as Screenplay
1951
as Screenplay
1934
as Writer
1960
as Writer
1959
as Director
1960
as Director
1958
as Director
1936
as Director
1936
as Screenplay
1937
as Screenplay
1958
as Screenplay
1958
as Screenplay
1935
as Writer
1938
as Director
1943
as Director
1985
as Director
1985
as Writer
1944
as Director
1933
as Director
1935
as Director
1948
as Director
1930
as Director
1945
as Director
1932
as Director
1932
as Cinematography
1932
as Editor
1944
as Writer
1952
as Director
1929
as Director
1929
as Editor
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