Director
Jean Rouch
1917Paris, France68 Films
Jean Rouch (French: [ʁuʃ]; 31 May 1917, Paris – 18 February 2004, Niger) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered to be one of the founders of cinéma-vérité in France, which shared the aesthetics of the direct cinema. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker for over sixty years in Africa, was characterized by the idea of shared anthropology.
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A Friendly Handshake
1997
Germaine et ses copains
1996
Germaine chez elle
1994
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
1992
5.8
Brise-glace
1990
Cousin, cousine
1987
7.5
Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
1987
9.0
Enigma
1986
The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
1986
Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
1983
Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
1979
Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
1978
8.0
Makwayela
1977
8.0
Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
1977
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
1977
5.5
Badye, the Storyteller
1977
5.0
Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
1976
Zomo et ses frères
1975
6.4
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
1974
Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
1974
The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
1974
Boukoki
1973
The Burial of the Hogon
1973
Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo
1973
6.3
VW-Voyou
1973
Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
1973
8.8
Horendi
1972
6.0
Un lion nommé l'Américain
1972
7.1
Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
1971
5.9
Drums from the Past
1971
Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
1970
7.2
Little by Little
1970
Architects of Ayorou
1970
Mya - la mère
1970
Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
1969
Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
1968
Ayorou Singing Stones
1968
Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
1968
Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
1967
6.7
Jaguar
1967
Daouda Sorko
1967
5.7
The Lion Hunters
1966
Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
1966
6.5
The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
1966
6.5
Six in Paris
1965
6.0
Gare du Nord
1965
6.7
The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
1964
That Tender Age
1964
L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
1964
Monsieur Albert, prophète
1963
Hampi
1962
7.3
The Punishment
1962
Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days
1962
7.1
Chronicle of a Summer
1961
6.5
The Human Pyramid
1961
Funérailles au Ghana
1960
The Sons of the Water
1959
7.3
I, a Negro
1959
4.7
Moro Naba
1958
10.0
Baby Ghana
1957
6.2
The Mad Masters
1955
5.0
Mammy Water
1953
8.0
The Rainmakers
1951
6.5
Cemeteries in the Cliff
1951
5.7
Battle on the Great River
1950
Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed
1948
The Magicians of Wanzerbé
1948
6.2