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Chris Marker

Creator, Director, Director Of Photography, Screenplay

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Chris Marker (born 29 July 1921) was a French writer, photographer, film director, multimedia artist and documentary maker.

His best known films are La jetée (1962), A Grin Without a Cat (1977), Sans Soleil (1983) and AK (1985), a documentary on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

Source: TMDB, September 2021

Credits

Born
29 Jul 1921
Died
29 Jul 2012 (aged 91)
Production Places
France

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

9956

TMDB-Person

9956

Wikidata

Q170256

VIAF

112124956

LOC Auth

n82004946

WorldCat

lccn-n82004946

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