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Born 1900 • Russia
Died May 1938 (aged 38) • London • England
Movement / Style poetic realism
Invaders from Mars
William Cameron Menzies
American set designer
Beaton, Sir Cecil
Sir Cecil Beaton
British photographer and costume and production designer
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Cedric Gibbons
American art director
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John Bury
British set designer
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Alfred Junge
German motion-picture set designer
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vesnin
Russian architect
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Charles-Marie Vanel
French actor
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Auguste Lumière
French inventor
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Louis Lumière
French inventor
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Russian film director and theorist
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
French Swiss film director
Alejandro Jodorowsky, with white hair and beard, wearing a dark sweater, smiles in front of a blue and red background at an event in 2017.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
French filmmaker
Germaine Dulac
Germaine Dulac
French filmmaker
French director Francois Truffaut stands at right speaking with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve during filming of La Sirene du Mississippi on a city street.
François Truffaut
French director
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
French director
Isabelle Huppert wearing a black textured dress with cutout details, smiling and looking to the side at the Cannes Film Festival.
Isabelle Huppert
French actress
lobby card for The Comedy of Terrors
Jacques Tourneur
French-American director
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais
French film director
Roman Polanski in a close-up portrait, wearing a white collared shirt and dark jacket, smiling slightly at the Cannes Film Festival.
Roman Polanski
Polish film director
All About Eve
Gregory Ratoff
Russian-born actor and director