Jean Vigo

 

 

 

 

Jean Vigo had a short life and not much commercial success, but it was greatly important to the development of cinema in France and in the world. He was born in 1905 (son of an anarchist militant), in Paris, and died of tuberculosis in 1934. He cooperated to the establishment of poetic realism in cinema in the thirties and is most known for two of his movies: Zero de Conduite (1933) and L ́Atalante (1934). He was also one of the earliest filmmakers to use essayism in his filmmaking, in his first film À propos de Nice (1930).