Jean Rollin

Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil

Film Director, Screenwriter, Cult Fantastique Auteur

Born Nov 03, 1938

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

Passed Away Dec 15, 2010 Paris, France

Lifespan 72 years old

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"My cinema is not about fear; it is about memory, melancholy, and the poetry of dreaming."

Archival Overview

Cult French film director, screenwriter, and novelist renowned as a pioneer of poetic European fantastique cinema and atmospheric vampire films.

Biographical Record

Jean Michel Rollin was exposed to the surrealist avant-garde in Paris through his mother's friendship with figures like Jean Cocteau and Maurice Leroux. In 1968, amidst the Paris student uprisings, he released 'Le Viol du vampire', the first French vampire feature film.

Rollin forged a highly personal cinematic universe characterized by deserted French beaches, crumbling châteaux, gothic romanticism, and poetic melancholia in works like 'La Rose de fer' (1973) and 'Fascination' (1979). Today, his films are celebrated internationally as masterpieces of idiosyncratic European cult art.

Key Life Milestones

1968

Le Viol du vampire

Directed the first French sound feature vampire film, causing a sensation at Parisian theaters.

1973

La Rose de fer (The Iron Rose)

Released his poetic masterwork set entirely inside a decaying Parisian cemetery, gaining enduring cult acclaim.

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Final Resting Place

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Père Lachaise Cemetery
Paris, France

                         GPS: 48.8603, 2.3957                    

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