Henri Storck

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Henri Storck 1907 Ostend 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 Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique Royal Belgian Film Archive He was an actor in two key films of the history of the cinema Jean Vigos Zéro de conduite 1933 in the role of the priest and Chantal Akermans Jeanne Dielman 23 Quay Commercial 1080 Brussels 1976 in the role of a customer of the prostitute Jacqueline Aubenas wrote about him in her expository work Its 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Henri Storck licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia