Jean Tedesco (1895–1958) was a French film director,

film critic Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium. In general, film criticism can be divided into two categories: journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-media outlets ...

and

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. Chief editor of the ''Cinéa'' magazine he also was managing director of the

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between 1924 and 1934 where he showed

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films during the 1920s.''En route vers le parlant: histoire d'une évolution technologique''
Martin Barnier, Editions du CEFAL, 2002,

Filmography (selection)

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

: ''Napoléon Bonaparte, empereur des Français'' (documentary) * 1951 : ''L'Anglais tel qu'on le parle'' (after

Tristan Bernard Tristan Bernard (7 September 1866 – 7 December 1947) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer. Life He studied law, and after his military service, he started his career as the manager of an aluminium smelter. In the 1890s, ...

) (short film) * 1951 : ' (short) * 1948 : ' with

Charles Dechamps Charles Dechamps (13 September 1882 – 25 September 1959) was a French stage and film actor. He married the comedian Fernande Albany on 19 November 1925. He died in 1959, and was buried at cimetière du Père-Lachaise. Filmography * 1909: ' ...

* 1946 : ''Comédie avant Molière'' (short) *

1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...

: ' (short) *

1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...

: ' (documentary) * 1941 : ''Sur les chemins de Lamartine'' (documentary) * 1937 : ''Panoramas au fil de l'eau'' * 1931 : ''Amour et quadrille'' * 1928 : ''

The Little Match Girl "The Little Match Girl" ( da, Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the sulphur-sticks", i.e. matches) is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's dre ...

'' (co director :

Jean Renoir Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent film, silent era to the end of the 1960s. ...

)

Bibliography

* ''Le Cinéma'', Jean Tédesco, 1933

References

External links

Cinema-francais.fr

Cineressources.net
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tedesco, Jean French film directors French film critics 20th-century French screenwriters Film directors from London 1895 births 1959 deaths