Jacques Krier (February 6, 1926 - August 24, 2008) was a French television film producer and director.
[4] He subsequently attended film school at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, later known as La Fémis.
[3] Moreover, with Stellio Lorenzi, he was the co-founder of the Syndicat français des réalisateurs de Télévision, a subgroup of the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), a labor union in France.
[3] Krier started his career in television because the 1946 Blum–Byrnes agreement made it difficult for communists to work in cinema.
[5] Krier began directing documentaries in 1957 alongside Jean-Claude Bergeret with A la découverte des Français, a television series of 14 mini-documentaries about the everyday lives of French miners, fishermen, teachers, etc.
[2][3][5] He subsequently directed Les Matinales – Paris de 5 à 7, a television series of mini-documentaries about the living conditions of janitors.