Nov 17, 1993
60 min
Full-HD

Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II (1993)

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

Category

Documentary

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

BBC Omnibus

Jean Renoir

Self (archive footage)

Peter Bogdanovich

Self

Bernardo Bertolucci

Self

Auguste Renoir

Self (archive footage)

Jacques Renoir

Self

Norman Lloyd

Self

Alain Renoir

Self

Claude Heymann

Self

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