Jean-Pierre Thorn
Jean-Pierre Thorn | |
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Thorn in 2016 | |
| Born | 24 January 1947 Paris, France |
| Died | 5 July 2025 (aged 78) |
| Occupation | Film director |
Jean-Pierre Thorn (24 January 1947 – 5 July 2025) was a French film director.[1]
Biography
Born in Paris on 24 January 1947, Thorn began his career in Aix-en-Provence directing theatrical pieces. In 1965, he directed his first short film, titled Emmanuelle. His first full-length film, Oser lutter oser vaincre, Flins 6, was released in 1968.[2] He then abandoned cinema to work in an Alstom factory in Saint-Ouen in connection with the French Democratic Confederation of Labour.[3] However, he returned to cinema in 1978. In 1989, he released a full-length documentary titled Je t'ai dans la peau, which covered François Mitterrand's victory in the 1981 French presidential election.[4] In 1992, he co-founded the Association du cinéma indépendant pour sa diffusion.[5] In 2019, he released L'Âcre Parfum des immortelles, which was about the premature death of his childhood sweetheart in the 1970s.[6] In May of that year, he signed a letter in the newspaper Libération in support of the yellow vests protests.[7]
Thorn died on 5 July 2025, at the age of 78.[8]
Filmography
- Emmanuelle (1966)
- Oser lutter oser vaincre, Flins 68 (1968)
- Le Dos au mur (1981)
- La Grève des ouvriers de Margoline (1981)
- Je t'ai dans la peau (1989)
- Bled Sisters (1993)[9]
- Faire kiffer les anges (1997)
- On n'est pas des marques de vélo (2003)
- Allez, Yallah ! (2009)
- 93 La Belle Rebelle (2011)
- L'Âcre Parfum des immortelles (2019)
Awards
- Prix Charles-Brabant (2023)[10]
References
- ^ Ekchajzer, François (7 July 2025). "Mort de Jean-Pierre Thorn, cinéaste qui a dédié sa vie aux luttes sociales". Télérama (in French). Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ "Oser lutter, oser vaincre, Flins 68". film-documentaire.fr (in French).
- ^ Gauthier, Guy (April 1981). "No 360". La Revue du cinéma (in French).
- ^ "Je t'ai dans la peau". Autour du 1er mai (in French).
- ^ Mélinard, Michaël (7 July 2025). "Mort du cinéaste Jean-Pierre Thorn, défenseur infatigable des sans-grade". L'Humanité (in French). Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ "L' Âcre parfum des immortelles". AlloCiné (in French).
- ^ "Gilets jaunes : nous ne sommes pas dupes !". Libération (in French). 4 May 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ "Jean-Pierre Thorn 1947-2025". Société civile des auteurs multimédia (in French).
- ^ "Bled Sisters". Autour du 1er mai (in French).
- ^ "Prix Scam – Charles Brabant • Jean-Pierre Thorn". Public Information Library (in French).
External links
- Jean-Pierre Thorn at IMDb
- Jean-Pierre Thorn discography at Discogs