Roland Lethem

Biography

Roland Lethem (born 1942) is a Belgian filmmaker and writer. Influenced at his beginnings by Buñuel , Cocteau , the surrealists and by the Japanese cinema ( Seijun Suzuki , Ishirō Honda , Kōji Wakamatsu , Yoko Ono ), stunned by the Festival of the experimental film of Knokke in 1967 and by May 1968, Roland Lethem wants to push the people to look at the things of which they say they are freed, it's to say to place them in front of their responsibilities. Even if sometimes the results leaves much to be desired, the idea of ​​each one of his films is seductive and exemplary. A fact is certain, his films are disturbing, they are sometimes unpleasant to look at. The narcissistic and provocative play of the debut turned itself into direct, visual, and verbal insult, and in slandering. His dream was one moment to be able to film the intimate life of the pope or the sexual plays of the Belgian sovereigns. Through violence, pornography and cruelty of some scenes, Roland Lethem is a gentle, generous man with a lot of humor. The work of Roland Lethem evolves, becomes political, ecological. The Ballad of the cursed lovers, 1966 or The Bloodthirsty Fairy, 1968 still tell stories. The Sufferi…

Directed

1. The Bloodthirsty Fairy (1969) — Director
2. The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg (1967) — Director
3. Le Petit Bonhomme Vert (2013) — Director
4. Le sexe enragé (1970) — Director
5. Le vampire de la cinémathèque (1971) — Director
6. In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx (1974) — Director
7. Hostel Party (1990) — Director
8. Bunch of Assholes! (1970) — Director
9. Gourmandises (2004) — Director
10. La Saga de Madiana (1981) — Director
11. Marilyn's La(te)st Love Song (1978) — Director
12. La Double Insomnie (1963) — Director
13. The Crazed Sex of the Bloodthirsty Fairy (1979) — Director
14. Lili au lit (1965) — Director
15. La ballade des amants maudits (1967) — Director
16. Comme le temps paxe vite (1974) — Director
17. Le Vice et la Vertu (1973) — Director
18. Super huître (1974) — Director
19. Thalamus Lives! (1973) — Director
20. Gerda Flower Powers (1971) — Director
21. La tête d'un frère (1975) — Director
22. Super bite (1975) — Director
23. Trois pierres (1980) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Sufferings of a Wounded Egg (1967)
2. Cinématon (1978) — N°161
3. Pieces of Identity (1998) — Night Club manager
4. Beef Cattle (1979) — vagrant
5. Cold Head (1970) — Man in orgy
6. Le sexe enragé (1970) — L'homme dans le lit
7. In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx (1974) — Man in orgy (archive footage)
8. Le journal de Joseph M. (2000) — Génie Morlock
9. Jean-Gina B. (1984) — apostle
10. Marilyn's La(te)st Love Song (1978)
11. Jardins clandestins (2012)
12. La Double Insomnie (1963)
13. Sprookje, of l'homme-objet (1972)
14. Le Vice et la Vertu (1973) — Man
15. Super huître (1974)
16. Lili au lit (1965) — The father
17. Grève et pets (1975)
18. Cocktail Morlock (1981) — Self
19. Cinéma (1997)
20. 2 ou 3 choses que je sais de Joseph Morder (2007) — Self (archive footage)
21. Cinématon XVII (1982) — N°161
22. EXPRMNTL (2016) — Himself
23. La tête d'un frère (1975)
24. Crime contre le cinéma (2020)