Joris Ivens

Joris Ivens
Joris Ivens, circa 1971
Born
Georg Henri Anton Ivens

(1898-11-18)18 November 1898
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Died28 June 1989(1989-06-28) (aged 90)
Paris, France
OccupationFilm maker
SpouseMarceline Loridan-Ivens
Conference of "World Union of documentary films" in 1948 Warsaw: Basil Wright (on the left), Elmar Klos, Joris Ivens (2nd from the right) and Jerzy Toeplitz
Joris Ivens (left) with Ernest Hemingway (middle) and Ludwig Renn in the Spanish Civil War, 1936/37
Ivens's tomb at Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris

Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens (18 November 1898 – 28 June 1989) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker. Among the notable films he directed or co-directed are A Tale of the Wind, The Spanish Earth, Rain, ...A Valparaiso, Misère au Borinage (Borinage), 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, The Seine Meets Paris, Far from Vietnam, Pour le Mistral and How Yukong Moved the Mountains.