Jean Vigo had bad health since he was a child. Son of anarchist militant Miguel Almareyda, he also never really recovered from his father's mysterious death in jail when he was 12. Abandoned by his mother, he passed from boarding school to boarding school. Aged 23, through meetings with people involved in the movies, he started working in the ...
Jean Vigo Award was established in 2007 by Navarra International Documentary Film Festival in Spain.
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In 2011 Jean Vigo's daughter and film critic Luce Vigo accepted the Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award -- named after persecuted Soviet filmmakers Sergei Parajanov and Mikhail Vartanov -- posthumously honoring Vigo for the masterpiece Zero for Conduct (1933); Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight presented the award and Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese sent a letter for the occassion with words on Vigo, Paradjanov and Vartanov, all of whom had struggled against censorship.
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The movie À propos de Nice (1930) was financed by Vigo's father-in-law.
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His father, Eugène Bonaventure de Vigo known with the pseudonym of Miguel Almereyda, founded and directed the extreme left-wing paper "Le Bonnet Rouge." In August of 1917, he was arrested under the charge of attempting on State's security and a few days later was found dead in the prison of Fresnes. He had been strangled with the laces of his own shoes, and the murderer never was discovered.
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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 1136-1142. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
L'Atalante
1934
adaptation / dialogue
Zero for Conduct
1933
Short scenario
Taris
1931
Documentary short
À propos de Nice
1930
Documentary short screenplay
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
L'Atalante
1934
Zero for Conduct
1933
Short
Taris
1931
Documentary short
À propos de Nice
1930
Documentary short
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Zero for Conduct
1933
Short uncredited
Taris
1931
Documentary short
À propos de Nice
1930
Documentary short
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Zero for Conduct
1933
Short producer - uncredited
À propos de Nice
1930
Documentary short producer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Les Carabiniers
1963
dedicatee
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Jean Vigo: Le son retrouvé
2001
Video documentary short
Himself in pictures (uncredited)
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2011
Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Award
Parajanov-Vartanov Institute Awards
Best Film
Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège (1933)
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