filmography;
the films of Joris Ivens
The films mentioned below are listed in chronological order. It names all the films Joris Ivens directed, or in which production he had a major role. We have given the original title of the film and, if necessary, the current English and French titles. Every title will be linked to a page with a more detailed description of the film. Do you have questions concerning one or more films? Don't hesitate to send us an e-mail.
| 1910 - 1930 | FAMILIE-FILMS
IVENS Home movies Ivens family / Films de famille Ivens: - ZANDBAK, VAN BERCHENSTRAAT (originally without title) Sand-box, van Berchenstraat / Bac à sable, van Berchenstraat (2 minutes, b/w, silent, 35mm, circa 1910) - 'T ZONHUIS The Sunhouse / Maison du soleil (6 minutes, b/w, silent, 35mm, 1921) - O, ZONNELAND Zonneland / Zonneland (7 minutes, b/w, silent, 35mm, 1922) - 'T ZONHUIS The Sunhouse / Maison du soleil (2 minutes, b/w, silent, 35mm, 1925) - THEA'S MEERDERJARIGHEID ZONNELAND Thea's age of majority, Zonneland / La majorité de Thea, Zonneland (12 minutes, b/w, silent, 35mm, 1927) - ZONNELAND Zonneland / Zonneland (circa 8 min, b/w, silent, 35mm, 1930) |
| 1912 | DE
WIGWAM (Brandende Straal) Wigwam (Shining Ray) / La Hutte (Flêche ardente) (Holland, 8 minutes, black and white, silent, 35 mm) |
| 1927 | FILMEXPERIMENTEN
Film experiments / Expériments cinématographiques: - PROEF-OPNAMEN CHARLOTTE KÖHLER Test-shooting Charlotte Köhler / Prises provisoire Charlotte Köhler (Holland, b/w, silent, 35mm, 1927, lost) - DE ZIEKE STAD The Sick Town / La ville malade (with Erich Wichman; b/w, silent, 35mm, 1927, not realized) - KINOSCHETSBOEK Film Sketchbook / Album à dessin cinématographique (Holland, b/w, silent, 35mm, 1927, lost) - DIE STRAßE The Street / La rue (not finished, Holland, b/w, silent, 35mm, 1927, lost) - ZEEDIJK FILMSTUDIE Filmstudy Zeedijk / Études sur le Zeedijk (Holland, 10 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm, 1927, lost) - DEMONSTRATIEFILMS MICROCAMERA,UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN Instruction films micro camera, University Leiden / Films d'instruction microcamera, Université Leiden (Holland, b/w, silent, 35mm, 1927, lost) |
| 1927 | -
ÉTUDES DES MOUVEMENTS Studies in Movement (Holland, 4 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm) |
| 1928 | DE
BRUG The Bridge / Le pont (Holland, 11 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm) |
| 1929 | BRANDING
Breakers / Les Brisants (Dir: Mannus Franken, Holland, 33 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm) |
| 1929 | IK-FILM
I Film / Moi-film (Holland, 10 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm, lost) |
| 1929 | SCHAATSENRIJDEN
Ice Skating / Les patineurs (Holland, 8 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm, lost) |
| 1929 | ARM
DRENTHE (DE NOOD IN DE DRENTSCHE VENEN) Poor Drenthe (The Misery in the Peat-mores of Drenthe) / Pauvre Drenthe (La misère aux tourbières de Drenthe) (Holland, 15 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm, lost) |
| 1929 | REGEN
Rain / La pluie (with Mannus Franken, Holland, 12 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm) |
| 1929 | HEIEN
Pile Driving / Pilotis (Holland, 10 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm) |
| 1930 | WIJ
BOUWEN We Are Building / Nous batissons (Holland, 110 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm) also as independent parts: NVV-CONGRES NVV Congress / Congrès du NVV JEUGDDAG Day of Youth / Journée de la jeunesse NIEUWE ARCHITECTUUR New Architecture / Nouvelle architecture CAISSONBOUW Caisson Building / Caissons armés de Rotterdam AMSTERDAMSE JEUGDDAG Amsterdam Day of Youth / Journée de la jeunesse à Amsterdam ZUIDERZEEWERKEN Zuiderzee Works / Zuiderzee ZUID-LIMBURG South Limburg / Sud Limbourg |
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1930 |
VAN STRIJD, JEUGD EN ARBEID
(tweede vakbondsfilm) |
| 1930 | ZUIDERZEE
Zuiderzee / Zuiderzee (Holland 40 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm) |
| 1930 | VVVC-JOURNAAL
VVVC News / Ciné-journal VVVC - 3 parts: - VVVC-JOURNAAL VVVC News / Ciné-journal VVVC (Holland, 15 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm, lost) - NO. 1: FILMNOTITIES UIT DE SOVJET UNIE Nr. 1: News from the Soviet Union / No. 1: Journal de l'Union soviétique (Holland, 20 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm, lost) - NO. 2: DEMONSTRATIE VAN PROLETARISCHE SOLIDARITEIT Nr. 2: Demonstration of Proletarian Solidarity / No. 2: Démonstration de solidarité prolétaire (Holland, 20 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm, lost) |
| 1930 | BREKEN
EN BOUWEN (Tribune film) Tribune Film / Tribune film (Dir.: Mark Kolthoff; Holland 20 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm, lost) |
| 1931 | DONOGOO-TONKA
(Holland b/w, silent, 35 mm, lost) |
| 1931 | PHILIPS
RADIO Philips Radio / Symphonie industrielle (Holland, 36 min, b/w, sound, 35 mm) |
| 1932 | CREOSOOT
Creosote / Créosote (with Jean Dréville; Holland, 80 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm) |
| 1932 | PESN
O GEROJACH (KOMSOMOL) Komsomol, or Song of Heroes / Komsomol, ou Le chant des héros (Russia, 50 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1933 | NIEUWE
GRONDEN New Earth / Nouvelle terre (Holland, 30 min, b/w, sou, 35mm) |
| 1934 | MISERE
AU BORINAGE Borinage (with Henri Storck; Belgium, 34 min, b/w, silent, 35 mm) |
| 1934 | SAARABSTIMMUNG
UND SOWJETUNION Saar Referendum and Soviet Union / Référendum du Saar et Union soviétique (with Gustav Regler; Soviet Union, b/w, sou, 35mm, lost) |
| 1936 | BORZY
(KÄMPFER) The Fighter / Le Lutteur (Dir.: Gustav von Wangenheim; Soviet Union, b/w, sou, 35mm) |
| 1936 | THE
RUSSIAN SCHOOL IN NEW YORK L'école russe à New York (United States, b/w, sou, 35mm, lost) |
| 1937 | SPANISH
EARTH Terre d'Espagne (United States, 52 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1939 | THE
400 MILLION Les 400 millions (United States, 53 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1941 | POWER
AND THE LAND L'électrification de la terre (United States, 33 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1941 | OUR
RUSSIAN FRONT Notre front russe (with Lewis Milestone; United States, 38 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1942 | OIL
FOR ALLADINS LAMP La lampe d'Aladin (United States, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1943 | ACTION
STATIONS ! Alarme! ou Branle-bas de combat (Canada, 50 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1945 | THE
STORY OF G.I. JOE Le récit de G.I. Joe (Dir.: William Wellman; United States, 97 min, b/w, sou, 35mm) |
| 1946 | INDONESIA
CALLING L'Indonésie apelle (Australia, 22 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1949 | PIERWSZE
LATA The First Years / Les premières années (Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, 99 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1951 | POKOJ
ZWYCIECY SWIAT Peace Will Win / La paix vaincra (with Jerzy Bossak; Poland, 90 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1952 | FREUNDSCHAFT
SIEGT Friendship Triumphs / L'amitié vaincra (with Ivan Pyriev; Russia, GDR, 95 min, colour, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1952 | WYSCIC
POKOJU WARSZAWA-BERLIN-PRAGA Peace Tour 1952 / La course de la paix Varsovie-Berlin-Prague (Poland, GDR, 44 min, col, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1954 | DAS
LIED DER STRÖME Song of the Rivers / Le chant des fleuves (GDR, 90 min. b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1956 | MEIN
KIND My Child / Mon enfant (Dir.: Vladimir Pozner, Alfons Machalz; GDR, 22 min, b/w, sou, 35mm) |
| 1956 | DIE
ABENTEUER DES TILL EULENSPIEGEL / LES AVENTURES DE TILL L'ESPIEGLE The Adventures of Till Eulenspiegel (Dir.: Gérard Philipe; GDR/France, 90 min, col, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1957 | DIE
WINDROSE The Windrose / La rose des vents (Dir.: Alberto Cavalcanti, a.o.; GDR, 110 min, b/w, sou, 35mm) |
| 1957 | LA
SEINE A RENCONTRE PARIS The Seine Meets Paris (France, 32 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1958 | BEFORE
SPRING Lettres de Chine (China, 38 min, col, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1958 | SIX
HUNDRED MILLION WITH YOU 600 millions avec vous (China, 12 min, col, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1960 | L'ITALIA
NON E UN PAESE POVERO Italy is not a Poor Country / L'Italie n'est pas un pays pauvre (Italy, 110 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1960 | DEMAIN
A NANGUILA Nanguila Tomorrow (Mali, 50 min, col, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1961 | CARNET
DE VIAJE Travel Notebook / Carnet de voyage (Cuba, 34 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1961 | PUEBLO
ARMADO An Armed People / Peuple armé (Cuba, 35 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1962 | MARC
CHAGALL Marc Chagall (Dir.: Henri Langlois; France, col, sou, 35mm; film was not released) |
| 1963 | ...A
VALPARAISO (France/Chile, 37 min, b/w and col, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1963 | LE
PETIT CHAPITEAU The Little Circus (France/Chile, 6 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1964 | LE
TRAIN DE LA VICTOIRE The Victory Train (Chile, 9 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1965 | POUR
LE MISTRAL The Mistral (France, 30 min, b/w and col, sou, 35 mm and cinemascope) |
| 1966 | LE
CIEL, LA TERRE The Threatening Sky (France, 30 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1966 | ROTTERDAM-EUROPOORT
Rotterdam Europort (Holland, France, 20 min, col, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1967 | LOIN
DE VIETNAM Far From Vietnam (Collective; France, 115 min, col, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1968 | LE
17ème PARALLELE The 17th Parallel (with Marceline Loridan; France, 113 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1970 | LE
PEUPLE ET SES FUSILS The People and Their Guns (Collective; France, 97 min, b/w, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1970 | RENCONTRE
AVEC LE PRESIDENT HO CHI MINH Meeting With President Ho Chi Minh (with Marceline Loridan; France 8 min, col, sou, 35 mm) |
| 1976 | COMMENT
YUKONG DEPLAÇA LES MONTAGNES How Yukong Moved the Mountains (with Marceline Loridan; France, 12 hours, col, sou, 16 mm) 12 parts: - AUTOUR DE PETROLE: TAKING (84 min) The Oilfields - LA PHARMACIE NR. 3: SHANGAI (79 min) The Pharmacy: Shanghai - L'USINE DE GENERATEURS (131 min) The Generator Factory - UNE FEMME, UNE FAMILLE (110 min) A Woman, A Family - LE VILLAGE DES PECHEURS (104 min) The Fishing Village - UNE CASERNE (56 min) An Army Camp - IMPRESSIONS D'UNE VILLE: CHANGHAI (60 min) Impression of a City: Shanghai - HISTOIRE D'UN BALLON: LE LYCEE NO. 31 A PEKIN (19 min) The Football Incident - LE PROFESSEUR TSIEN (12 min) Professor Tsien - UNE REPETITION A L'OPERA DE PEKIN (30 min) Rehearsal at the Peking Opera - ENTRAINEMENT AU CIRQUE DE PEKIN (18 min) Training at the Peking Circus - LES ARTISANS (15 min) Traditional Handicrafts |
| 1977 | LES
KAZAKS - MINORITE NATIONALE - SINKIANG The Kazakhs - National Minority, Xinjiang (with Marceline Loridan; France, 50 min, col, sou, 16 mm) |
| 1977 | LES
OUIGOURS - MINORITE NATIONALE - SINKIANG The Uigurs - National Minority, Xinjiang (with Marceline Loridan; France, 35 min, col, sou, 16 mm) |
| 1979 | COMMÉMORATION
À PARIS DE LA MORT DE MAO ZE DONG (Journal) Commemoration of the death of Mao Ze Dong (News-item) (with Marceline Loridan; France, col, sou; made for Chinese television) |
| 1988 | UNE
HISTOIRE DE VENT A Tale of the Wind (with Marceline Loridan; France, 74 min, col, sou, 35 mm) |