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Joris Ivens

Born 1898-11-18 Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands 14 films

The filmmaker Joris Ivens was the son of C.A.P. Ivens, owner of the CAPI photography shop in Nijmegen. With the help of his father’s employees, in the 1910s the young Joris Ivens made the short film De wigwam, with roles for his parents, brothers, and sisters. Ivens studied economics and photography. From the end of the 1920s, he was one of the vital figures in the world of Dutch avant-garde film. As a technical consultant, he was involved with the Filmli…

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Filmography

14 films

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Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary s…

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Memória Cubana

★ 0.0 2010

The Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens (1898-1989) received the honorary title 'Old friend of…

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Een oude vriend van het Chinese volk

★ 0.0 2008

It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "ta…

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A Tale of the Wind

★ 6.5 1989

Lili lives near the port of Le Havre. She is mourning her lover Pablo, who died leaving unfinished…

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Havre

★ 7.0 1986

Three pioneers of documentary filmmaking – Joris Ivens, Henri Storck, and the man behind the camera…

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Ciné-mafia

★ 0.0 1980

A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the Nat…

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Grierson

★ 7.3 1973

Filmed in Laos in 1968, this four-part documentary examines the armed struggle against foreign inte…

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The People and Their Guns

★ 9.0 1970

This documentary presents the Vietnam War as seen from within Vietnam, focusing on civilian life, i…

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The Threatening Sky

★ 9.5 1966

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.

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World Without a Game

★ 0.0 1966

A student is working part-time on a canal boat in Amsterdam and a young director wants to make a fi…

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Aah... Tamara

★ 10.0 1965

Portrait from 1964 of the editors of the film magazine Skoop, founded in 1963. Portrait from 1964…

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Skoop

★ 0.0 1964

The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding…

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New Earth

★ 6.8 1933