Jean Epstein Movies

Documentary film shot in Brittany about lighthouses and lighthouse keepers on the island of Ouessant and coast of Finistere.

On the islet Bannec, off the coast of Brittany, four fishermen have set up camp for three months to harvest seaweed. If processed correctly, the ash...

This portrait of the French film theorist and avant-garde director Jean Epstein (1897-1953) concentrates on the period when he filmed in Brittany,...

The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries...

From the French television series Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma, the episode uploaded here, Jean Epstein ou le Cinéma...

The inhabitants of a poor village want to sell their houses and their land. One day, a woman breaks down in her car while crossing the village....

Jean Epstein’s short documentary filmed on the Breton island of Sein, which film preservationist and cinephile Henri Langlois called “one...

Jean Bonnard, clean-cut industrialist and the only son of a widow, goes to visit his mother in the small village where she lives. However, early in...

A young man falls in love with the daughter of the man who adopted him.

Jean Benoît-Lévy & Jean Epstein's inventive documentary about the life of Louis Pasteur, a French chemist and one of the most important...

An idyllic description of that french area, including quarries, vineyards and the most typical issues from Bourgogne's region.

A short subject, described by its director as a film poem, commissioned by the French Youth Hostel Association.

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

Visual accompaniment to a classical song composed by Marius Zimmermann with lyrics by René-Paul Groffe, performed by baritone André...

The visit of Ouest Eclair newspaper.

Documentary film about the people of Brittany and their lives, including music and dance from the region.

Documentary about the Narbonne region and the wine harvest.

In a foundry, in 1951, a modernization program was implemented in order to revive competitiveness.