Jean-Claude Lauzon

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Jean-Claude Lauzon (born September 29, 1953 in Montréal , † August 10, 1997 near Kuujjuaq , Québec ) was a Canadian film director .

Lauzon studied at a university in Montréal, where he also made his first short film. He was noticed by his first feature film Night Zoo - Kreaturen der Nacht ( Un zoo la nuit ), which caused a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival and for which he won two Genie Awards in 1988 for best director and best screenplay.

In 1992 he made his second feature film Léolo , with which he was nominated for the Palme d'Or in Cannes and u. a. received a Genie Award for Best Original Screenplay. The strongly autobiographical work tells highly poetic and at the same time surreal the story of a boy in the midst of a family, which the viewer gradually experiences as increasingly crazy and from which the boy can only save himself in his fantasy world: "Because I dream, I am not. "

While he was working on his third feature film, he and his partner, actress Marie-Soleil Tougas, died in a plane crash in a self-controlled Cessna.

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SURNAME Lauzon, Jean-Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1997
Place of death Kuujjuaq , Quebec