Citizen Cannes The Man behind the Cannes Film Festival (slight shelf wear) by Gilles Jacob

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241mm x 165mm x 34mm

Pages: 384

For over thirty years, Gilles Jacob has been the soul of the biggest film festival in the world - the Cannes Festival - of which he was elected President in 2000. As witness and champion of the film industry, Jacob describes in Citizen Cannes his journey from that of a Jewish boy saved by a Catholic seminary during World War II, later becoming an entrepreneur and a film critic, and finally an accomplished man who in 1978 was appointed general delegate of the biggest vanity fair in the world -- Cover