| Joris Ivens |
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| 1898 births | |
| ivens, joris | |
| 1989 deaths | |
| dutch film directors | |
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| dutch communists | |
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Probably the best known of his early films is his 10-minute short '' Rain '' ''(Regen)''. Born into a wealthy family, Ivens went to work in his father's photo supply shop and from there developed an interest in film. He completed his first film at 13; in college he studied economics with the goal of continuing his father's business, but an interest in class issues distracted him from that path. Originally his work focused on technique--some argue that it had that focus at the cost of relevance, especially in ''Rain,'' filmed over 2 years and featuring impressive cinematography and a number of "characters" (but no information about them aside from what was visible) and in ''The Bridge'' (which showed a frank admiration of engineering and also featured a number of "characters" but again did not give any information about them). In 1933 Ivens made ''Misère au Borinage'' ''(Borinage)'', a moving and militant documentary about life in a coal mining region. From 1936 to 1945 Ivens lived in the United States and made anti-'' ''(Far from Vietnam)''. From 1971 to 1977 he filmed ''How Yukong Moved the Mountain,'' a 763 minute documentary about the Cultural Revolution in China. Ivens was knighted by the Dutch government in 1989; he died on June 28 that same year. Shortly before his death he made the last of more than 40 films '' Une Histoire De Vent '' ''(A tale of the wind)''. LITERATURE
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