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Some damned filmmakers

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7.5

Jean-Claude Brisseau

Un jeu brutal (1983)

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André Delvaux

De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen (1966)

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7.3

Jean Eustache

Mes petites amoureuses (1974)

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8.5

Philippe Fourastié

La bande a Bonnot (1968)

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7.8

Jean-Claude Lauzon

Léolo (1992)

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Raoul Lévy

Je vous salue, mafia! (1965)

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Lorenzo Llobet Gracia

Vida en sombras (1953)

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7.9

Barbara Loden

Wanda (1970)

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8.3

Peter Lorre

Der Verlorene (1951)

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7.4

André Malraux

L'espoir / Sierra de Teruel (1945)

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8.3

Sergei Parajanov

Sayat Nova (1968)

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8.3

Abraham Polonsky

Force of Evil (1948)

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Georges Rouquier

Farrebique ou Les quatre saisons (1946)

Jacques Rozier

Du côté d'Orouët (1973)

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8.3

Leontine Sagan

Mädchen in Uniform (1931)

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7.2

Evald Schorm

Kazdy den odvahu (1964)

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7.3

Larry Semon

The Girl in the Limousine (1924)

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8.2

Dalton Trumbo

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

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8.1

Jean Vigo

L'atalante (1934)

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8.4

Erich von Stroheim

Greed (1924)

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This is a small list of some of the meanings losers in Cinema history as directors are concerned. It is those who, in short, deserved greater public attention, recognition according to their own merits.

In some cases, they suffered a real persecution either ideological or political in their countries of origin (Schorm, Trumbo, Parajanov, Sagan, Polonsky) or simply a mutilating and destructive censorship (Von Stroheim). Others have chained commercial failures (Fourastié, Rouquier, Rozier) or his estimable work has been misunderstood (Brisseau, Delvaux... Eustache!). Some have only gotten testament to a unique and very significant underestimated movie (Llobet, Loden, Lorre, Malraux). Also premature death cut short a promising career (Semon, Fourastié...) even in tragic circumstances (Lauzon, Eustache or Lévy).

A paradigm, a director would be a compendium of all the misfortunes exposed and perhaps the greatest poet of cinema: the french Jean Vigo.

Linked in alphabetical order and a picture of what is possibly his most representative film is shown.