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- Henri Storck was born on September 5, 1907 in Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Rubens (1948), Le banquet des fraudeurs (1952) and Boerensymfonie (1944). He died on September 16, 1999 in Brussels, Belgium.
- Belgian documentarist, founder of the Belgian Royal Film Archive in 1938. Had abandoned a career as a painter to work in the cinema from the early 1930's. Much of his later work reflected his continued fascination with painting and artists like Paul Delvaux and Leon Spillaert.
- The films Storck is best remained of, are his social documentaries. The most famous is Misery in the Borinage, he made together with Joris Ivens.
- He became a close friend of painters like Ensor, Permeke, Spilliaert, Tytgat and Labisse.
- Storck has made almost 100 films, but in his own country, he was often restricted by the negligence of the elite for the film medium.
- Art has always played a great role in his life and some of his finest documentaries are art films: Rubens, Teirlinck, The open window, Paul Delvaux, Permeke ...
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