Jean Benoit-Levy

Biography

Jean Benoit-Levy is a producer and Réalisateur French of cinema, it was born on April 25th, 1888, in Paris and died the August 2nd 1959. Nephew of Edmond Benoit-Levy who opens on the grand boulevards, in Paris, in 1906, the first nonopen cinema, Jean Benoit-Levy will continue engagement in favor of the educational cinema initiated by his uncle. Become in the inter-war period the appointed scenario writer of the Third Republic, it carries out mainly in the Twenties, nearly 300 courts, means or feature-length films at ends of popular education, financed by the cineclubs of the ministry for Health, Agriculture and Vocational training. He militates within institutions in bond with the Société of the Nations, like the intellectual Institute of co-operation, hoping to make cinema an agent of education to humanistic aiming. Passing to the spectacular feature film with the beginning of the year thirty, its films sometimes Co-carried out with Marie Epstein, generally the problems of preceding films begin again. Obliged to emigrate in the United States under the Occupation, because of its Jewish origins, it joined the intellectuals, such Henri Focillon or Jacques Maritain, French and Belgians, who found reception within New School for social research and founded the Private school of the high studies, a university whose diplomas in are recognized by free France of the Général de Gaulle. The shortly after the war Jean Benoit-Levy accepts responsibilities with the United Nations, it will join the French territory only with the beginning of the year fifty, to put in scene twenty-five filmed ballets.

It belonged to the jury of the feature-length films to the Cannes festival 1949.

Catalog of films

  • Pasteur (1922)
  • Hearts of children (1927)
  • Skin of Fishing, the return to the ground (1928)
  • Maternity (1929)
  • Jimmy Sound-effects man (1930)
  • Heart of Paris (1931)
  • the Nursery school (1934)
  • Itto (1935)
  • Helene (1936) with Madeleine Renaud
  • the Death of the Swan (1936-1937)
  • Altitude 3200 (1938)
  • Fire of Straw (1939)

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