Joris Ivens

Date of Birth: 18 Nov 1898

Country: Netherlands

Biography: Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens was born to a family of photographers, and his directing credits included more than 50 documentary films. Ivens died at age 90, the recipient of many film awards as well as the Lenin Peace Prize. He was posthumously conferred the Friendship Order of Vietnam. Ivens is remembered as a formal-technical innovator, and for his communist and Third World sympathies.

Biography submitted by karamazov.

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