Jean Rollin

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Jean Rollin
Jean Rollin
Born	Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil (1938-11-03)3 November 1938 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Died	15 December 2010(2010-12-15) (aged 72) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Director, actor, writer
Years active	1957–2010
Spouse	Simone Rollin
Children	2
Website	Official site

Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil (3 November 1938 – 15 December 2010) was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique genre.

Rollin's career, spanning over fifty years, featured early short films and his achievements with his first four vampire classics Le viol du vampire (1968), La vampire nue (1970), Le frisson des vampires (1970), and Requiem pour un vampire (1971). Rollin's subsequent notable works include La rose de fer (1973), Lèvres de sang (1975), Les raisins de la mort (1978), Fascination (1979), and La morte vivante (1982).^[1]

His films are noted for their exquisite, if mostly static, cinematography, off-kilter plot progression, poetic dialogue, playful surrealism and recurrent use of well-constructed female lead characters. Outlandish dénouements and abstruse visual symbols were trademarks. Belied by high production values and precise craftsmanship, his films were made with little money, often against deadlines. In the mid-1970s, lack of regular work led the director to direct mostly pornographic films under various pseudonyms, an activity he continued until the early 1980s.