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Emile Degelin (16 July 1926 – 20 May 2017) was a Belgian
film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
and novelist, the director of '' If the Wind Frightens You'' His 1963 film ''
Life and Death in Flanders Life, also known as biota, refers to matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes. It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, respons ...
'' was entered into the
13th Berlin International Film Festival The 13th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 21 June to 2 July 1963. The Golden Bear was jointly awarded to '' To Bed or Not to Bed'' directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro and '' Bushido, Samurai Saga'' directed by Tadashi Imai. ...
. His 1969 film '' Palaver'' was entered into the
6th Moscow International Film Festival The 6th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 7 to 22 July 1969. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Cuban film ''Lucía'' directed by Humberto Solás, the Italian film ''Serafino (film), Serafino'' directed by Pietro Germi and the ...
. His final film, ''De ooggetuige'', won the audience prize at the Ghent Film Festival in 1995. He is seen as one of the pioneers and founders of the Belgian film. Degelin died on 20 May 2017 at his home in
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, a borough of
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, Belgium.


Selected filmography

* ''Préhistoire du cinéma'' (1959) * ''Si le vent te fait peur'' (''If the Wind Frightens You'') (1960) * ''Sirènes'' (1961) * ''La Mort du paysan'' (1963) * ''
Life and Death in Flanders Life, also known as biota, refers to matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes. It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, respons ...
'' (1963) * '' Palaver (film)'' (1969) * '' Exit 7'' (1978)


References

1926 births 2017 deaths Belgian film directors 20th-century Belgian novelists Belgian male novelists 20th-century Belgian male writers People from Diest {{Belgium-film-director-stub