Jean-Jacques Andrien

{{short description|Belgian film director (born 1944)}}

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| name = Jean-Jacques Andrien

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| birth_place = Verviers (Wallonia)

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| occupation = Film director

| yearsactive = 1972–present

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Jean-Jacques Andrien (born 1 June 1944) is a Belgian film director. Le Monde deem his film Le Grand Paysage d'Alexis Droeven (1981), to be the first great Film of a Walloon cinemaQuoted by Jean-Patrick Duchesne Des arts plastiques au cinéma in Bruno Demoulin et Jean-Louis Kupper, Histoire de la Wallonie, Privat, Toulouse, 2004, pages 366-377, p. 376 {{ISBN|2-7089-4779-6}} This film addresses two problems; the first is that of Belgium's region, site of a bitter conflict between Flemish and Walloon inhabitants, and the second that of dramatic changes that have affected the agricultural world.Lieve Spaas, The Francophone Film: A Struggle for Identity Published by Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 19, {{ISBN|0-7190-5861-9}} The film was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention.{{Cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1981/03_preistr_ger_1981/03_Preistraeger_1981.html |title=Berlinale 1981: Prize Winners |access-date=30 August 2010 |work=berlinale.de |archive-date=12 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012044531/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1981/03_preistr_ger_1981/03_Preistraeger_1981.html |url-status=dead }}