Emile Degelin

{{Short description|Belgian film director and novelist (1926–2017)}}

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| name = Emile Degelin

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1926|7|16}}

| birth_place = Diest, Belgium

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2017|05|20|1926|7|16}}

| death_place = Kessel-Lo, Leuven, Belgium

| nationality = Belgian

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| occupation = film director, novelist

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Emile Degelin (16 July 1926 – 20 May 2017) was a Belgian film director and novelist, the director of If the Wind Frightens You{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3290/year/1960.html |title=Festival de Cannes: If the Wind Frightens You |accessdate=2009-02-18|work=festival-cannes.com}} His 1963 film Life and Death in Flanders was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222143/awards |title=IMDB.com: Awards for Life and Death in Flanders |accessdate=2010-02-14 |publisher=IMDb}} His 1969 film Palaver was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1969 |title=6th Moscow International Film Festival (1969) |accessdate=2012-12-17 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116194825/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1969 |archivedate=16 January 2013 }} His final film, De ooggetuige, won the audience prize at the Ghent Film Festival in 1995.{{cite news |url=http://focus.knack.be/entertainment/film/belgische-filmpionier-emile-degelin-overleden/article-normal-855549.html |title=Belgische filmpionier Emile Degelin overleden |publisher=Knack Focus |date=2017-05-21}}

He is seen as one of the pioneers and founders of the Belgian film. Degelin died on 20 May 2017 at his home in Kessel-Lo, a borough of Leuven, Belgium.{{cite news |url=http://m.rtl.be/info/919852 |title=Le cinéaste Emile Degelin est décédé à Louvain |publisher=RTLInfo |language=French |access-date=21 May 2017 |archive-date=3 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603220828/http://m.rtl.be/info/919852 |url-status=dead }}