Jean Rouch

Career Overview

Jean Rouch has 169 screen credits in a career dating back to 1947. Their work is anchored in the Sigui Synthesis Collection universe with 4 titles. Signature works include Brise-glace, Chronicle of a Summer, The Year 01. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For: Directing
Gender: male
Known Credits: 169
Birth Date: 1917-05-31
Birth Place: Paris, France

Known For

Associated Universes

Sigui Synthesis Collection (4 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

Nadine Ballot (2 collaborations)
Ewin Hansen (1 collaborations)
Jan-Cedric Hansen (1 collaborations)
Jacques Wenger (1 collaborations)
Yves Leroy (1 collaborations)
Alain Rimoux (1 collaborations)
Claude Becker (1 collaborations)
Alain Halle-Halle (1 collaborations)
Jean-François Lapalus (1 collaborations)
Edgar Morin (1 collaborations)

Credits

actors (39 credits)
- Rouch's Gang
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- Work(ing Together) in Process
  Self, the filmmaker before the filmmakers (in 240p)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- Outlaw
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- L’Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- My Conversations on Film
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Freddy Buache, le cinéma
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- Maya Deren, Take Zero
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Sodankylä Forever
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- The Dreamed Films
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- Portrait de Jean Rouch
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- Jean Rouch, des mensonges plus vrais que la réalité
  Lui-même
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- Encountering Jean Rouch
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Mon père c'est un lion - Jean Rouch pour mémoire
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2000
- Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1999
- Ciguri - Tarahumaras 99 - Le dernier chaman
  narrador
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1999
- Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1998
- Ciguri – Tarahumaras 98 - La Danse Du Peyotl
  Narrator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1998
- Son of Gascogne
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1995
- Rouch in Reverse
  himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1995
- Germaine chez elle
  himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1994
- Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1992
- An Egg with No Shell
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1992
- Letter to Jean Rouch
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1992
- Jean Rouch: First Film 1947-1991
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1991
- Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
  himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1983
- Ciné-mafia
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1980
- Cinématon
  N°1256
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1978
- Samba the Great
  Narrator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1977
- Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
  Lui-même
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1977
- Civilisation: L'homme et les images
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1967
- World Without a Game
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1966
- La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1964
- The Lovely Month of May
  Self (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1963
- The Doll
  Officer (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1962
- Chronicle of a Summer
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1961
- The Sons of the Water
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1959
- The Mad Masters
  Narrator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1955
art (1 credits)
- Mad Mimes
  property builder
  
  art
  
  2012
directing (92 credits)
- Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
  director
  
  directing
  
  2002
- I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
  director
  
  directing
  
  1997
- Announcement
  director
  
  directing
  
  1997
- Germaine et ses copains
  director
  
  directing
  
  1996
- Germaine chez elle
  director
  
  directing
  
  1994
- Madame l'eau
  director
  
  directing
  
  1993
- Damouré Speaks About AIDS
  director
  
  directing
  
  1992
- Brise-glace
  director
  
  directing
  
  1990
- Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et puis après...
  director
  
  directing
  
  1990
- Boulevards d'Afrique
  director
  
  directing
  
  1989
- Brise-glace : Bateau givre
  director
  
  directing
  
  1987
- Cousin, cousine
  director
  
  directing
  
  1987
- Couleur du temps. Berlin, Août 1945
  director
  
  directing
  
  1987
- Enigma
  director
  
  directing
  
  1986
- The Ordinary Madness of a Daughter of Ham
  director
  
  directing
  
  1986
- Dionysos
  director
  
  directing
  
  1984
- Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
  director
  
  directing
  
  1983
- Sigui Synthesis: The Invention of Speech and Death
  director
  
  directing
  
  1981
- Ciné-mafia
  director
  
  directing
  
  1980
- Funeral at Bongo: The Death of Old Anai
  director
  
  directing
  
  1979
- Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend
  director
  
  directing
  
  1978
- Makwayela
  director
  
  directing
  
  1977
- Ispahan: A Persian Letter (The Chah Mosque at Ispahan)
  director
  
  directing
  
  1977
- Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
  director
  
  directing
  
  1977
- Badye, the Storyteller
  director
  
  directing
  
  1977
- Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
  director
  
  directing
  
  1976
- Zomo et ses frères
  director
  
  directing
  
  1975
- Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
  director
  
  directing
  
  1974
- Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
  director
  
  directing
  
  1974
- The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
  director
  
  directing
  
  1974
- Sigui 1973: The Canopy of Circumcision
  director
  
  directing
  
  1973
- The Year 01
  co-director
  
  directing
  
  1973
- Boukoki
  director
  
  directing
  
  1973
- The Burial of the Hogon
  director
  
  directing
  
  1973
- Funeral Rites for Women in Bongo
  director
  
  directing
  
  1973
- VW-Voyou
  director
  
  directing
  
  1973
- Giraffe Football or “The Alternative”
  director
  
  directing
  
  1973
- Sigui 1972: The Loincloths of Yamé
  director
  
  directing
  
  1972
- Horendi
  director
  
  directing
  
  1972
- Un lion nommé l'Américain
  director
  
  directing
  
  1972
- Sigui 1971: The Dune of Idyeli
  director
  
  directing
  
  1971
- Drums from the Past
  director
  
  directing
  
  1971
- Sigui 1970: The Clamours of Amani
  director
  
  directing
  
  1970
- Little by Little
  director
  
  directing
  
  1970
- Architects of Ayorou
  director
  
  directing
  
  1970
- Mya - la mère
  director
  
  directing
  
  1970
- Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
  director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- Sigui 1968: The Dancers of Tyogou
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- Ayorou Singing Stones
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- Sigui 1967: L'enclume de Yougo
  director
  
  directing
  
  1967
- Jaguar
  director
  
  directing
  
  1967
- Daouda Sorko
  director
  
  directing
  
  1967
- The Lion Hunters
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
- The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
- Dogon Drums, Elements of a Study in Rhythm
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
- Six in Paris
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- Gare du Nord
  director
  
  directing
  
  1965
- The Fifteen-Year-Old Widows
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- That Tender Age
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- L'Afrique et la recherche scientifique
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- Rose et Landry
  director
  
  directing
  
  1963
- Monsieur Albert, prophète
  director
  
  directing
  
  1963
- Les cocotiers
  director
  
  directing
  
  1963
- Le palmier à l'huile
  director
  
  directing
  
  1963
- Hampi
  director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- The Punishment
  director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- Niger Festivals: December 1961 - Niger Independence Days
  director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- Le mil
  director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- Abidjan, port de pêche
  director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- Urbanisme africain
  director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- Les pêcheurs du Niger
  director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- Chronicle of a Summer
  director
  
  directing
  
  1961
- The Human Pyramid
  director
  
  directing
  
  1961
- Funérailles au Ghana
  director
  
  directing
  
  1960
- The Sons of the Water
  director
  
  directing
  
  1959
- I, a Negro
  director
  
  directing
  
  1959
- Moro Naba
  director
  
  directing
  
  1958
- Une sortie de novices de Sakpata
  director
  
  directing
  
  1958
- La royale goumbé
  director
  
  directing
  
  1958
- Baby Ghana
  director
  
  directing
  
  1957
- The Mad Masters
  director
  
  directing
  
  1955
- Mammy Water
  director
  
  directing
  
  1953
- The Rainmakers
  director
  
  directing
  
  1951
- Cemeteries in the Cliff
  director
  
  directing
  
  1951
- Les gens du mil
  director
  
  directing
  
  1951
- Battle on the Great River
  director
  
  directing
  
  1950
- Circumcision
  director
  
  directing
  
  1949
- Initiation into the Dance of the Possessed
  director
  
  directing
  
  1948
- The Magicians of Wanzerbé
  director
  
  directing
  
  1948
- Hombroï
  director
  
  directing
  
  1948
- In the Land of the Black Magi
  director
  
  directing
  
  1947
writing (15 credits)
- Le Rêve plus fort que la mort
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2002
- Germaine chez elle
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1994
- Brise-glace
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1990
- Brise-glace : Bateau givre
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1987
- Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1974
- The Dama of Ambara: To Enchant Death
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1974
- Drums from the Past
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1971
- Little by Little
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1970
- The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1966
- Six in Paris
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1965
- Gare du Nord
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1965
- The Punishment
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1962
- The Human Pyramid
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1961
- I, a Negro
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1959
- Mammy Water
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1953
crew (8 credits)
- I'm Tired of Standing, I Lie Down
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1997
- Ciné-mafia
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1980
- Drums from the Past
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1971
- The Human Pyramid
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1961
- The Mad Masters
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1955
- Mammy Water
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1953
- Battle on the Great River
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1950
- Circumcision
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1949
camera (9 credits)
- Brise-glace
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1990
- Brise-glace : Bateau givre
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1987
- Ciné-Portrait of Raymond Depardon
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1983
- Babatou, Three Pieces of Advice
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1976
- Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1974
- Little by Little
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1970
- Jaguar
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1967
- The Lion Hunters
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1966
- The Goumbé of the Young Revelers
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1966
editing (2 credits)
- Brise-glace
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1990
- Brise-glace : Bateau givre
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1987
production (3 credits)
- I, a Negro
  producer
  
  production
  
  1959
- Mammy Water
  producer
  
  production
  
  1953
- Circumcision
  producer
  
  production
  
  1949