Jean Rollin
Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil (3 November 1938 – 15 December 2010) was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire (1968) and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort (1978). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Rollin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: November 3, 1938
Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Known For
L'Infirmière au minou rasé
Eurotika!
Eurotika is a Channel 4 documentary film on European exploitation cinema. The documentary is similarly themed to Pete Tombs's book Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies 1956-1984. During the 1960s and 1970s, European low-budget films went kinky, emerging as a new type of cinema that blended eroticism, surrealism, horror, and over-the-top atmospherics.
Jean Rollin: The Stray Dreamer
Who is Jean Rollin? A man who has spent his childhood in the middle of some of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. An artist who has worked with Marguerite Duras for his first film. A director's career singular and unique in French cinema, with films overtly fantastic, surreal, poetic - disconcerting. A filmmaker has always murdered by the critics but starting, finally, to enjoy some recognition in France, while many fans worship him already in Europe and the United States. Jean Rollin signs a marginal and unknown work marked by death and nostalgia, and whose main obsession is the time, that of the wandering and dreams. Jean Rollin died in December 2010 at the age of 72. This documentary is the portrait of a real artist, the last surrealist, a poet who created his very own dreamworld. A tribute for a unique director, with testimonials from his closest collaborators.
Crime and Punishment
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
Disco Sex
A disco band shows up at a studio to make a new album, but they are badly mobbed by a bunch of female groupies. A big orgy breaks out that postpones the recording session.
The Iron Rose
A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.
The Story of French Fantasy Cinema
The story of the French fantasy cinema from Méliès to Raw.
The Grapes of Death
A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.
Lips of Blood
Frédéric sees a photograph of a ruined seaside castle, which triggers a strange childhood memory. He then goes on a strange quest, aided by four female vampires, to find the castle and the beautiful woman who lives there.
Par devant par derrière
A young girl arrives unannounced at his uncle to celebrate her birthday, as he is not free, she holds a very special evening with friends of his uncle.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Himself
as Professeur Nolan
as Bandaged Man (as Michel Gentil)
as Maj. Taylor
as Dr. Roll
as A client at Vénus club (uncredited)
as Inspector Spitz
as Invité
as Sound Engineer
as The winemaker
as Mike Gentle - the vampire
as Cemetery Guard
as Rapist
as Man in red Turtleneck
as The Prowler
as Villager
as Self