Jacques Poitrenaud
Born:May 22, 1922
Place of Birth:Lille, France
Died:April 2, 2005
Known For:Directing
Biography
Jacques Poitrenaud (22 May 1922, Lille – died 2 April 2005, Paris) was a French film director and actor.
He was a director and assistant director, known for Stranger from Hong-Kong (1963), Le canard en fer blanc (1967) and Mendiants et Orgueilleux (1972). He died on April 2, 2005 in Poissy, Yvelines, France.
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'Round Midnight
1986
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.