Henri Storck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henri Storck

Belgian writer

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1907

Place of Birth: Ostend, Flemish Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 17-Sep-1999

Profession: screenwriter, actor, university teacher, film director

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Henri Storck

  • Henri Storck (5 September 1907 – 17 September 1999) was a Belgian author, filmmaker and documentarist. In 1933, he directed, with Joris Ivens, Misère au Borinage, a film about the miners in the Borinage area.
  • In 1938, with Andre Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen, he founded the CinĂ©mathèque Royale de Belgique (Royal Belgian Film Archive).
  • Storck was an actor in two key films of the history of the cinema: Jean Vigo's ZĂ©ro de conduite (1933) in the role of the priest, and Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quay Commercial, 1080 Brussels (1975) in the role of a customer of the prostitute. Jacqueline Aubenas wrote about him, in her expository work, It's been going on for 100 years: a history of the francophone cinema of Belgium: "There emerges forcefully the personality of a cineaste who is not a militant in the sense that this term had in the 1930s for Soviet directors who held an ideology, but in the sense of a generous man who will never choose the wrong side and who will be, in ethics as well as in esthetics, in the first line of battle". In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.

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