Armand Rocour

Born in 1932 in Amay, a Belgian municipality located in the Walloon province of Liège, Armand Rocour was a radio-TV repairman who developed two passions, aviation and filmmaking. He made his first film, an amateur documentary short, while on an African tour at the controls of his plane. Others followed, in Thailand and in Egypt. He directed his first fiction film, a short, in the mid-seventies, Nous les femmes (1974), adapted from a play by José Brouwers, a playwright of Liège. Two years later, Rocour managed to produce, write and direct his first feature film Les arpents dorés (1976), but it was little seen outside the province of Liège. A second feature, Les dédales d'Icare (1981) was also his last before he died of cancer in 1988.