Eugène Lourié

Eugène Lourié

Born April 8, 1903· Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]

† Died May 26, 1991

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Having grown up in Kharkov to Russian-Jewish parents and first encountering cinema in 1911, Lourié fled the Soviet Union, financed his passage to Paris by painting movie posters in Istanbul, and began his film career in France. In the 1930s he supplied production design for leading directors such as Jean Renoir, Max Ophüls and René Clair, contributing to classics like La Grande Illusion and La Règ…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources

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