French director Jean Vigo (1905-1934) established poetic realism in film in the 1930s. He was a posthumous influence on the French New Wave of the late fifties and sixties. Vigo is noted for two films that affected the future development of both French and world cinema: Zero for Conduct (1933) and L’Atalante (1934). Vigo died of tuberculosis at age 29.
