Gaston Schoukens

Gaston Schoukens was born in Brussels on 5 February 1901 and made his name in 1926, at the age of twenty-five, with a first comedy. He also made documentaries, art films and patriotic dramas, directed the first Belgian sound film, then the first Belgian feature film with sound recorded on the film itself. His farces in the Brussels accent filled cinemas and allowed him to self-finance films that the critics shunned; Paul Flon was often his cinematographer. He died in Brussels in April 1961.

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• ComedyBossemans et CoppenolleGaston Schoukens · 1938Cinema