Henri Storck


Henri Storck was a Belgian author, filmmaker and documentarist.
In 1933, he directed, with Joris Ivens, Misère au Borinage, a film about the miners in the Borinage area. In 1938, with Andre Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen, he founded the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique.
Storck was an actor in two key films of the history of the cinema: Jean Vigo's Zéro de conduite in the role of the priest, and Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quay Commercial, 1080 Brussels in the role of a customer of the prostitute.
Jacqueline Aubenas wrote about him, in her expository work, It's been going on for 100 years: a history of the francophone cinema of Belgium: "There emerges forcefully the personality of a cineaste who is not a militant in the sense that this term had in the 1930s for Soviet directors who held an ideology, but in the sense of a generous man who will never choose the wrong side and who will be, in ethics as well as in esthetics, in the first line of battle".
In 1959, he was a member of the jury at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.

Awards and achievements

1927–1928
1929-1930
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1940
1942–1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1953–1954
1955
1956
1957
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1970–1971
1975
1978
1985