Jean Brismée (August 20, 1926 – January 18, 2024) was a Belgian film director, author of documentary and fantasy films,
[Jean Brismée]
profile at the Belgian Cinema website best known for the 1971 cult
horror film
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''
The Devil's Nightmare''.
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He was born at , ]Leuze-en-Hainaut
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On 1 January 2018, it had a population of 13,886.
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, Belgium.[
He authored about 40 films,][ but ''The Devil's Nightmare'' was the only full feature film of his.][
In 1962 he was among the founders of Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle et des techniques de diffusion, a Belgian film school.][Entretien avec Jean Brismée à propos de « La Plus Longue Nuit du Diable »]
(interview, republished ''post mortem''), February 29, 2024
He obtained a degree in mathematical sciences from the Free University of Brussels. After that he became passionate in filmmaking and pioneered making educational shorts, starting with ''Le théorème de Pythagore'' (1955, about the Pythagorean theorem
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).
His short ''Monsieur Plateau'' received an unanimous Special Jury Prize of Short Film Palme d'Or
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at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival
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.Retrospective. Année 1965
Cannes Film Festival[
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1926 births
2024 deaths
Belgian film directors
Belgian documentary film directors
Belgian horror film directors
Belgian television directors