Henri Alekan
Known for: Camera
Born: February 10, 1909
Died: June 15, 2001
Place of birth: Paris, France
Henri Alekan (10 February 1909, Paris – 15 June 2001, Auxerre, Bourgogne) was a French cinematographer. Alekan was born in Montmartre in 1909. At the age of sixteen he and his brother became travelling puppeteers. A little later he started work as third assistant cameraman at the Billancourt Studios. He then spent a short time in the army, returning to Billancourt in 1931. In the late 1930s he was the camera operator to Eugene Shufftan on Marcel Carné's Quai des Brumes and Drôle de drame. He was greatly influenced by Schufftan's non-naturalistic style. His first success as a director of photography was René Clément's realistic war drama La Bataille du Rail of 1946. In the same year he worked on Jean Cocteau's fable La Belle et la Bête. He found himself out of sympathy with the French New Wave cinema which emerged in the late 1950s and Alekan shot some rather conventional films in Hollywood. A new generation of directors appreciated his visionary style, however, and he worked with Raúl Ruiz on The Territory and On Top of the Whale, with Joseph Losey on Figures in a Landscape and The Trout, and with Wim Wenders on The State Of Things and Wings of Desire. His last films were made with the Israeli director Amos Gitai. He wrote one of the best books about cinematography Des lumières et des ombres (1984, Éditions du Collectionneur). Alekan died from leukemia on 15 June 2001 in Auxerre, Bourgogne, aged 92. Source: Article "Henri Alekan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Filmography
93 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
7.5
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
2001
NR
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997
NR
Screening at the Majestic
1997NR
Le travail d'un cinéaste : Julien Duvivier, 1896-1967
1996NR
Carné, You Said Carné?
1994
7.0
Faraway, So Close!
1993
5.2
Golem: The Petrified Garden
1993
5.0
Golem, the Spirit of Exile
1992
7.0
The Other Eye
1991NR
paint'o jazz
1991
9.0
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
1990
3.4
Birth of a Golem
1990
6.5
Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet
19905.5
J'écris dans l'espace
19895.3
Berlin-Jerusalem
1989
NR
Alekan, la lumière
1988
7.8
Wings of Desire
19876.0
40° à l'ombre
1987
6.1
Esther
1986
4.3
A Strange Love Affair
1985
NR
7 False Connections
1984
6.7
Wundkanal
1984
5.0
Cinématon XXXIV
1984NR
Cinématon n°330 : Henri Alekan
1984
8.7
Our Nazi
1984
4.8
A Stone in the Mouth
1983
6.1
The Beautiful Prisoner
1983
5.4
En rachâchant
1982
5.9
The Trout
1982
6.4
The State of Things
1982
7.0
On Top of the Whale
1982
6.0
The Territory
1981NR
La Dame de Monte-Carlo
1979
5.0
Ciné regards
1978
6.8
The Divisions of Nature
1978
5.2
Gun Moll
1975
6.8
Red Sun
1971
6.0
Figures in a Landscape
1970
6.6
Fun and Games for Everyone
1969
6.2
The Christmas Tree
1969
NR
Ici et maintenant
1969
6.2
Mayerling
1968
6.1
Triple Cross
1966
6.1
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
5.8
Lady L
1965
6.5
Topkapi
1964
6.0
The Story of Rebecca
1964
6.0
The Other Christopher
1963
6.0
Five Miles to Midnight
1962
5.5
Tales of Paris
1962
6.6
Black Tights
1961
6.6
Austerlitz
1960
6.0
The Great Deception
1959
4.4
Twelve Hours by the Clock
19597.0
Rodin's Hell
1959
7.2
The Magic of the Kite
1958
8.5
Would-Be Gentleman
1958
6.4
Paris Casino
1957
7.1
The Case of Dr. Laurent
1957
6.2
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1957
7.1
The Best Part
1955
8.1
Heroes and Sinners
1955
6.0
Frou-Frou
1955
7.1
Queen Margot
1954
4.2
The Impure Ones
1954
7.9
Roman Holiday
1953
5.9
When You Read This Letter
1953
6.4
Julietta
1953
5.8
Forbidden Fruit
1952
8.0
Three Women
1952
6.4
Stranger on the Prowl
1952
5.2
Paris Is Always Paris
1951
6.5
Trip to America
19516.0
German Film Award
1951
7.0
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
1951
5.5
Just Me
1950
5.7
Marie of the Port
1950
5.0
The Lovers of Verona
1949
6.8
Such a Pretty Little Beach
1949
6.0
Anna Karenina
1948
6.9
Woman of Evil
1947
5.9
The Damned
1947
7.5
Beauty and the Beast
1946
6.9
The Battle of the Rails
1946
6.6
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944
NR
Les Chevaux du Vercors
19437.0
Ceux du rail
1943
6.5
Blind Venus
1941
7.5
The Musicians of the Sky
1940
6.6
The Shanghai Drama
1938
7.4
Port of Shadows
1938
7.3
Hatred
1938
9.0
La Danseuse rouge
1937
6.9
Street of Shadows
1937
6.4
Life Is Ours
1936
7.5
Fanny
1932