Nationality Belgian Name Emile Degelin | Role Film director Ex-spouse Jacqueline Harpman | |
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Born 16 July 1926 (age 97) ( 1926-07-16 ) Diest, Belgium Occupation film director, novelist Movies If the Wind Frightens You, Palaver, Life and Death in Flanders, Sirenes, Sonata in Brussels Similar People Jacqueline Harpman, Stijn Streuvels, Karel van de Woestijne | ||
Dock, Emile Degelin (1955)
Emile Degelin (16 July 1926 – 20 May 2017) was a Belgian film director and novelist, the director of If the Wind Frightens You His 1963 film Life and Death in Flanders was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1969 film Palaver was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. His final film, De ooggetuige, won the audience prize at the Ghent Film Festival in 1995.
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He is seen as one of the pioneers and founders of the Belgian film. Degelin died on 20 May 2017 at his home in Kessel-Lo, a borough of Leuven, Belgium.
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