Jean Epstein Movies

This portrait of the French film theorist and avant-garde director Jean Epstein (1897-1953) concentrates on the period when he filmed in Brittany,...

The inhabitants of a poor village want to sell their houses and their land. One day, a woman breaks down in her car while crossing the village....

Documentary about the Narbonne region and the wine harvest.

In a foundry, in 1951, a modernization program was implemented in order to revive competitiveness.

Documentary film shot in Brittany about lighthouses and lighthouse keepers on the island of Ouessant and coast of Finistere.

A poetic drama, spoken in the Breton language and set in a Breton fishing community, telling of the impossible love between a waifish fisherman and a...

A renowned doctor and his brother live and work together until the brother falls in love with Marie, a singer, and gives up medicine to be with her....

An idyllic description of that french area, including quarries, vineyards and the most typical issues from Bourgogne's region.

Documentary film about the people of Brittany and their lives, including music and dance from the region.

Produced for the National Federation of Building Workers Ciné-Liberté, a Popular Front organization intended to counteract capitalist...

Documentary on communication routes for the French section of the New York International Exposition of 1939

Jean Benoît-Lévy & Jean Epstein's inventive documentary about the life of Louis Pasteur, a French chemist and one of the most important...

A short subject, described by its director as a film poem, commissioned by the French Youth Hostel Association.

On June 22, 1923, and just five days after the start of a violent volcanic eruption on the north side of Etna, Epstein and cameraman Paul Guichard...

Visit to the Château de Nohan where George Sand had lived.