Jean Epstein Movies

Parisian adventures of a fearless couple of friends and their return to their home in Marseille after a happy double marriage.

A poetic drama, spoken in the Breton language and set in a Breton fishing community, telling of the impossible love between a waifish fisherman and a...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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....

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

Documentary on communication routes for the French section of the New York International Exposition of 1939

On June 22, 1923, and just five days after the start of a violent volcanic eruption on the north side of Etna, Epstein and cameraman Paul Guichard...

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

Visit to the Château de Nohan where George Sand had lived.

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

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

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