About

Known credits:
21
Birthday:
1927-05-07
Place of birth:
Brussels, Belgium
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Luc de Heusch

Overview

Luc de Heusch (7 May 1927 – 7 August 2012) was a Belgian filmmaker, writer, and anthropologist, professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles . His 1967 film Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.

Luc de Heusch began his career in film in 1947 as assistant to Henri Storck . From 1949 to 1951 he lived in an artists' commune, the Ateliers du Marais. In 1951, under the pseudonym Luc Zangrie , he directed Perséphone , the only film produced by the CoBrA artistic movement.

In 1953 and 1954 he carried out anthropological fieldwork in the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi . Like Henri Storck and Charles Dekeukeleire , he also made documentary films about the Congo.

From 1955 to 1992 he was professor of social and cultural anthropology at the Free University of Brussels , later Université libre de Bruxelles.

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Acting
1984 De droomproducenten Actor Self N/A
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Directing
2023 Lotoko Directing Director N/A
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2023 Nkumi, everyday life Directing Director N/A
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2023 Burial among the Tetela Directing Director N/A
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2004 Ostende 1930 Directing Director N/A
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1995 Une république devenue folle Directing Director N/A
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1990 I’m Crazy, I’m Foolish, I’m Nasty Directing Director N/A
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1984 In the Footsteps of the Pale Fox Directing Director N/A
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1972 Dotremont-les-logogrammes Directing Director N/A
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1970 Alechinsky d'après nature Directing Director N/A
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1968 Libre examen 1968 Directing Director N/A
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1967 Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday Directing Director 59
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1961 Les amis du plaisir Directing Director N/A
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1960 Magritte or the Object Lesson Directing Director 58
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1958 Gestes du repas Directing Director N/A
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1957 Michel de Ghelderode Directing Director N/A
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1951 Perséphone Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1967 Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday Writing Dialogue 59
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1960 Magritte or the Object Lesson Writing Writer 58
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1958 Gestes du repas Writing Screenplay N/A
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Editing
2004 Ostende 1930 Editing Editor N/A
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