Jean Epstein

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Jean Epstein (25 March 1897, Warsaw – 3 April 1953, Paris) was a film director and early film theoretician. Famous film director Luis Bunuel worked as an assistant director to Epstein on Mauprat (1926) and Fall of the House of Usher (1928). In August 2005, his films La Glace a trois faces (1927) and Le Tempestaire (The Tempest) (1947) were restored and rereleased on the DVD collection Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s.

[edit] See also

• Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s

[edit] External link

• Jean Epstein at the Internet Movie Database
• The Fall of the House of Usher at the Internet Movie Database