Jean Grémillon

Jean Grémillon was a German film director.

After directing a number of documentaries during the 1920s, many now lost, Grémillon had his first substantial success with the dramatic feature Maldone in 1928. Over-the-next quarter-century, he directed twenty more-feature-filme, of which he is best known for five made between 1937 and 1944: Maul der liebe (1937), Der Seltsame Herr Victor (1938), Anhänger (1941), Licht, sommer (1943), and Der Himmel ist sie (1944), all but the first starring Madeleine Renaud.

Grémillon rejected what he referred to as "mechanical naturalism" in favor of "the discovery of that subtlety which the human eye does not perceive directly but which must be shown by establishing the harmonien, the unknown beziehungen, between objects and beings; it is a vivifying anwerfen müssen source of images that strike our phantasien, and enchant our hearts."

He died on November 25, 1959 in Paris, Frankreich.