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Henri Storck
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Henri Storck (1907, Ostend – 17 September 1999) was a Belgian author, film-maker and documentarist.
In 1933, he directed, with Joris Ivens, Misère au Borinage, a film about the miners in the Borinage area. In 1938, with Andre Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen, he founded the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique (Royal Belgian Film Archive). He was an actor in two key films of the history of the cinema: Jean Vigo's Zéro de conduite (1933) in the role of the priest, and Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quay Commercial, 1080 Brussels (1976) in the role of a customer of the prostitute.
Jacqueline Aubenas wrote about him, in her expository work, It's been going on for 100 years: a history of the francophone cinema of Belgium: "There emerges forcefully the personality of a cineaste who is not a militant in the sense that this term had in the 1930s for Soviet directors who held an ideology, but in the sense of a generous man who will never choose the wrong side and who will be, in ethics as well as in esthetics, in the first line of battle".
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As director
Ostende 1930
Permeke
Paul Delvaux or the Forbidden Women
Herman Teirlinck
Smuggler's Ball
The Open Window
Crossroads of Life
Rubens
The World of Paul Delvaux
Meeting of Artists
Peasant Symphony
Vacances
The Boss is Dead
Houses of Poverty
Le Trois-Mâts Mercator
Cap au Sud
L'île de Pâques
Borinage
Productie van gastroduodenal ulcers bij de hond
Outside the Border of the Camera
Story of the Unknown Soldier
Romance on the Beach
Ostend, Queen of Seaside Resorts
Summer by the Sea
Herring Fishers
Pleasure Trips
For Your Beautiful Eyes
Images of Ostend
Daytrippers
Ieper - Middelburg - Arras
