Jean Epstein Movies

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

Lost short film.

Because he found a box washed up by the sea holding unknown contents, a poor and despised fisherman and his daughter are suddenly courted by everyone...

This portrait of the French film theorist and avant-garde director Jean Epstein (1897-1953) concentrates on the period when he filmed in Brittany,...

Documentary film shot in Brittany about lighthouses and lighthouse keepers on the island of Ouessant and coast of Finistere.

The inhabitants of a poor village want to sell their houses and their land. One day, a woman breaks down in her car while crossing the village....

The visit of Ouest Eclair newspaper.

Documentary film about the people of Brittany and their lives, including music and dance from the region.

A mother sells a photo of her daughter to the press for publicity, and a daughter suddenly dies leaving the mother desperate surrounding by portraits...

A short subject, described by its director as a film poem, commissioned by the French Youth Hostel Association.

Jean Benoît-Lévy & Jean Epstein's inventive documentary about the life of Louis Pasteur, a French chemist and one of the most important...

Parisian adventures of a fearless couple of friends and their return to their home in Marseille after a happy double marriage.

On June 22, 1923, and just five days after the start of a violent volcanic eruption on the north side of Etna, Epstein and cameraman Paul Guichard...

An idyllic description of that french area, including quarries, vineyards and the most typical issues from Bourgogne's region.

A rich youth runs off with a circus troupe after a misunderstanding with a perfume girl he has loved.

The almost financially ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car...