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Jean-Pierre Lajournade

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Jean-Pierre Lajournade

Pau, France · Born April 19th, 1937

After studying at IDHEC from 1959 to 1961, he worked for television from 1962 to 1968. He was co-producer and director of the program Lire: he signed fifteen documentaries and four TV movies. In 1967 he filmed his first short film, Assommons les pauvres, with stolen film. He left the ORTF after the strike movement of May 1968. He then devoted himself to the realization of his experimental feature film (Le Joueur de quilles), produced by Jean-Edern Hallier, and three short films produced by Pierre Braunberger. He collaborated in the journal Cinéthique from 1975.

Films
23
Active since
1965
Top genre
Drama

Filmography

Appearances & behind the scenes (1)

Interviews, tributes and making-of features where Jean-Pierre Lajournade appears as themselves rather than as cast or crew.