About Georges Rouquier
Georges Rouquier was a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He worked principally on documentary films, and his best-known work is Farrebique (1947) a lyrical evocation of farming life in Aveyron. Rouquier bought a second-hand camera and made his first (silent) film, Vendanges (1929; now lost), about grape-harvesting in his native region. In 1944 Rouquier embarked on his first feature-length film, Farrebique, and spent 18 months living with a peasant farming family at Goutrens in Aveyron to document their way of life and their surroundings.
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