Biography
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.
Filmography
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Crew
Crew Credits
Nkumi, everyday life
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2023
Lotoko
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2023
Burial among the Tetela
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2023
Ostende 1930
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2004
Ostende 1930
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 2004
A Republic Gone Mad: Rwanda 1894-1994
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1995
I’m Crazy, I’m Foolish, I’m Nasty
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1990
In the Footsteps of the Pale Fox
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1984
Dotremont-les-logogrammes
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1972
Alechinsky d'après nature
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1970
Libre examen 1968
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1968
Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1967
Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
Role: Dialogue
MOVIE • 1967
Les amis du plaisir
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1961
Magritte or the Object Lesson
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1960
Magritte or the Object Lesson
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 1960
Gestes du repas
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 1958
Gestes du repas
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1958
Michel de Ghelderode
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1957
Perséphone
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1951