Henri Storck

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1907-09-05

Deathday 1999-09-17 (92 years old)

Place of Birth Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium

Henri Storck

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henri Storck (1907, Ostend – 17 September 1999) was a Belgian author, film-maker 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 Vigo's Zéro de conduite (1933) in the role of the priest, and Chantal Akerman's 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, It's 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 CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

2004
Ostende 1930

as Director

1985
Permeke

as Director

1983
Borinage

as Director

1953
Herman Teirlinck

as Director

1952
Smuggler's Ball

as Director

1952
The Open Window

as Director

1948
Rubens

as Director

1946
Pilgrimage to Hell

as Second Assistant Director

1945
Meeting of Artists

as Director

1944
Peasant Symphony

as Director

1938
Vacances

as Director

1938
The Boss is Dead

as Director

1936
Houses of Poverty

as Director

1935
1935
Cap au Sud

as Director

1934
L'île de Pâques

as Director

1932
Dainah the Mixed

as Assistant Director

1931
1931
Summer by the Sea

as Director

1930
Herring Fishers

as Director

1930
Pleasure Trips

as Director

1929
1929
Images of Ostend

as Director

1929
Daytrippers

as Director

Camera

1983
Borinage

as Director of Photography

1944
Peasant Symphony

as Director of Photography

1931
1930
Herring Fishers

as Camera Operator

1930
Pleasure Trips

as Camera Operator

1929
Images of Ostend

as Director of Photography

Editor

1948
Rubens

as Editor

1944
1938
1936
1931
1929

Writer

1985
Permeke

as Writer

1983
Borinage

as Writer

1948
Rubens

as Writer

1946
1944

Producer

1958
1948
Rubens

as Producer

1944
Peasant Symphony

as Producer

Crew

1929
For Your Beautiful Eyes

as Cinematography