» 1912-1930 / FAMILIEFILMS IVENS (De Wigwam (1912) and home movies from the Ivens family)
» 1927 / First Film Experiments
» 1928 / The Bridge
» 1929 (1) / Breakers
» 1929 (2) / I film
» 1929 (3) / Ice Skating
» 1929 (4) / Poor Drenthe (The Misery in the Peat-Mores of Drenthe)
» 1929 (5) / Rain
» 1929 (6) / Pile Driving
» 1930 (1) - We Are Building
» 1930 (2) - Second Union Film
» 1930 (3) - Zuiderzee
» 1930 (4) - VVVC News
» 1930 (5) - Tribune Film
» 1931 (1) - Donogoo-Tonka
» 1931 (2) - Philips Radio
» 1932 (1) - Creosote
» 1932 (2) - Komsomol / Song of Heroes
» 1933 - New Earth
» 1934 (1) - Borinage
» 1934 (2) - Saarabstimmung und Sowjetunion
» 1936 (1) - Bortzi / Kämpfer
» 1936 (2) - The Russian School in New York
» 1937 - The Spanish Earth
» 1939 - The Four Hundred Million
» 1940 (1) - New Frontiers
» 1940 (2) - Power and the Land
» 1941 (1) - Oil for Alladin's Lamp
» 1941 (2) - Our Russian Front
» 1943 - Action Stations!
» 1945 (1) - Know Your Enemy: Japan
» 1945 (2) - The Story of G.I. Joe
» 1946 - Indonesia Calling!
» 1949 - The First Years
» 1951 - Peace Will Win
» 1952 (1) - Friendship Triumphs
» 1952 (2) - Peace Tour 1952 / Drive for Peace Warsaw-Berlin-Prague
» 1954 - Song of the Rivers
» 1955 - My Child
» 1956 - The Adventures of Till Eulenspiegel
» 1957 (1) - The Windrose
» 1957 (2) - The Seine Meets Paris
» 1958 (1) - Before Spring
» 1958 (2) - Six Hundred Million With You
» 1960 (1) - Italy is Not a Poor Country
» 1960 (2) - Nanguila Tomorrow
» 1961 (1) - Carnet de Viaje
» 1961 (2) - Pueblo Armado
» 1962 - Chagall
» 1963 (2) - Valparaiso
» 1963 (2) - The Little Circus
» 1964 / The Victory Train
» 1965 (1) / Aah...Tamara
» 1965 (2) / For the Mistral
» 1966 (1) / The Threatening Sky / The Sky, the Earth
» 1966 (2) Rotterdam Europort
» 1967 / Far from Vietnam
» 1968 / The 17th Parallel
» 1970 / The People and their Guns
» 1970 / Meeting with President Ho Chi Minh
» 1976 / How Yukong Moved the Mountains (12 parts)
» 1977 / The Kazakhs - National Minority, Xinjiang
» 1977 / The Uigurs - National Minority, Xinjiang
» 1979 / Commemoration in Paris of the death of Mao Ze-Dong (news-item)
» 1986 / Hâvre
» 1988 / A Tale of the Wind
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1965 (2) / For the Mistral
France / 30 minutes / black-white, colour / sounds / 35 mm / partly cinemascope aspect ratio
Original title: Pour le Mistral
Dutch title: Voor de Mistral
Direction: Joris Ivens
Assistent directors: Jean Michaud, Ariane Litaize, Michelle de Possel, Maurice Friedland, Bjorn Johanssen
Script: Joris Ivens, René Guyonnet, Armand Gatti
Camera: André Dumaître, Pierre Lhomme, Gilbert Duhalde
Editing: Jean Ravel, Emmanuele Castro
Music: Luc Ferrari
Commentary text: André Verdet
Commentary voice: Roger Pigaut
Production company: Claude Nedjar; Centre Européen Radio-Cinéma-Télévision
Premiere: Film Festival of Venice, 1966
Awards: Golden Lion, Film Festival of Venice
One of Joris Ivens' most poetic films is his first attempt to film the wind. With a beautiful photography, a powerful editing and a poetic commentary the film tries to make the wind visible and tangible. It starts in black and white, continues in colour and ends in cinemascope to illustrate the force of the upcoming Mistral wind that blows in the south of France. The original scenario was much more elaborate and ambitious and fits Ivens' lifelong wish to film the impossible: the wind. It was difficult to find a producer for this film, for most people were rather sceptical to finance a film with an invisible main character. Finally Claude Nedjar was willing to produce the film, which despite many financial problems was finished in 1965.
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