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Jean Vigo
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Editor Born: April 26, 1905 in Paris, France Death: October 26, 1934 in Paris, France Biography:As the son of notorious French anarchist Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo (aka Miguel Almereyda), young "Jean Vigo" and his family were obliged to stay on the move, usually under assumed names. After his father was found dead in his prison cell in 1917, Vigo attended boarding school under the name Jean Sales. A tuberculosis victim, Vigo moved to Nice to recuperate in 1929. While on the mend, he directed his first film, the surrealist "A propos de Nice" (1930). His next project was the 11-minute "Taris", a documentary about France's reigning swimming champion. "Zero de conduite" (1932), Vigo's third film (at 45 minutes, it was not quite a short but not exactly a feature), combined the absurd qualities of his first picture with the straight-on realities of the second. The naturalistic central setting of a dismal, restrictive boys' school is undercut with the absurdity of a pint-sized instructor, a World War... Full Biography
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