LES YEUX SANS VISAGE

Georges Franju was born in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine in 1912. He co-founded the Cinématheque Française in 1936. The Nazi occupation of Paris and the industrialism following World War II influenced his early works. His first documentary, The Blood of Beasts, was a graphic depiction of a day inside a Paris slaughterhouse. In 1959, With Head Against the Wall, he turned toward fiction feature films. He occasionally directed for television and in the late seventies, he retired from filmmaking to preside over the Cinématheque Française. He died on 5 November 1987.