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After getting his start on short films, Harry Kümel cut his teeth on television and in the documentary field. This apprenticeship provided him with the background and confidence necessary to make feature films that one would call “formalist”, if one knew that this term did not risk irritating him considerably. Elusive and allergic to any intellectualization of his works, we owe him, in addition to the sublime Les lèvres rouges, the classic Malpertuis (1971), an adaptation of the novel by Jean Ray carried by the ogre Orson Welles and Michel Bouquet, as well as Repelsteeltje (1973), a transposition of the tale Rumpelstiltskin with the icon Rutger Hauer, which, according to him, was a “simple exercise for students of a film school” A.D.