Jean-Michel Tchissoukou’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Congolese film director
Was Film director
From Republic of the Congo
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender male
Birth

1942, Pointe-Noire, Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo

Death

1997, Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
(aged 55 years)

Jean-Michel Tchissoukou (1942-1997) was a Congolese filmmaker.

Life

Jean-Michel Tchissoukou was born 1942 in Pointe-Noire. He studied filmmaking in Paris at the Institut national de l’audiovisuel and at Ocora. On his return to the Congo, he spent a decade working for the national television channel. His first film, Illusions (1970) was a medium-length feature about a peasant who comes to live in the city with his parents. Tchissoukou was also assistant to Sarah Maldoror on Sambizanga (1972).

Tchissoukou’s first feature film, The Chapel, won a 1981 FESPACO award. His second feature film, The Wrestlers, examined Congolese identity using a mix of fiction and documentary.

Tchissoukou died in Brazzaville in 1997.

Films

  • Illusions, 1970.
  • La Chapelle / The Chapel, 1979.
  • Les Lutteurs / M’Pongo / The Wrestlers, 1982.
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