Georges Rouquier

Georges Rouquier was born in Lunel-Viel, in the Hérault, on 23 June 1909, to a father from the Aveyron. An apprentice typesetter at fourteen, then a linotype operator in Paris, he discovered cinema there. In 1929, he bought a camera and shot a first short film on the grape harvest. Under the Occupation, he devoted short films to traditional crafts. He was also an actor, in cinema and on television. He died in Paris on 19 December 1989, aged eighty.

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• DocumentaryFarrebique, or the Four SeasonsFarrebique ou Les Quatre SaisonsGeorges Rouquier · 1946Cinema