Title: Citizen Cannes
Description: 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.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Film festivals, Competitions, Cannes Film Festival, Motion picture actors and actresses, Motion picture producers and directors, Motion picture industry, Biography, History, Film critics
Places: Cannes, France
People: Gilles Jacob