Jean Epstein
Director | Writer | Editor | Screenplay | Producer
Jean Epstein 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", Epstein 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...
Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland
Date of Birth: Mar 25, 1897
Date of Death: Apr 2, 1953
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