Richard Copans
Known for: Directing
Born: November 25, 1947
Place of birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Richard Copans, born November 25, 1947, is a French film producer, cinematographer, and director. After studying cinematography at IDHEC from 1966 to 1968, he worked as an assistant cameraman for Andréas Winding, Philippe Rousselot, Pierre Lhomme, and Yann Le Masson from 1969 to 1976. From 1973 to 1978, he was a cameraman and director with the far-left militant film collective Cinélutte, notably on Bonne chance la France! In 1978, he founded Les Films d’ici (GIE) and produced, among other films, Journal de campagne and Ananas by Amos Gitaï. In 1982, he founded Les Films du passage with Paulo Branco, and subsequently produced around fifteen feature films. In 1984, he founded Les Films d’ici (SARL) with Yves Jeanneau. They produced numerous documentaries, mainly with La Sept Arte, including Route One/USA and Point de départ by Robert Kramer, Mémoires d’Ex by Mosco and Check The Changes by Marc Huraux, Arthur Rimbaud, a biography by Richard Dindo, La vie est immense et pleine de danger and Et la vie by Denis Gheerbrant, Les Moissons de fer by Jean-Claude Lubtchansky and Gérard Rougeron, Les Enfants illégitimes d’Anton Webern by Lilia Ollivier.
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Filmography
72 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
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A Body of One's Own
2026
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Fire of Wind
2026
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Un été à la ferme - L'âge d'or
2026
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Hommage à la Catalogne
2025
7.0
Girl for a Day
2024
9.0
Looking for Robert
2024
8.4
The Trial
2023
5.5
Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God
2022
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Une semaine sainte
2020
3.7
Mon amour
2020
6.5
Monsieur Deligny, vagabond efficace
2020
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Inside My Heart
2018
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6999 Doors
2018
6.0
120 ans d'inventions au cinéma
2016
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Architectures : La Santé, une prison dans Paris
2016
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Austerlitz
2015
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Autour de 24 Passions
2015
5.0
Un amour (Roman)
2015
6.2
Cinéma documentaire, Fragments d'une histoire
2014
5.0
Gare du Nord
2013
6.8
Human Geography
2013
7.5
Lullaby to my Father
2012
10.0
Islamic Art at the Louvre - The Outstretched Hand
2012
3.3
Eye of the Astronomer
2012
6.4
Land of Madness
2009
6.5
God's Offices
2008
5.1
Death's Glamour
2007
2.0
Bania
2005
8.0
Les métamorphoses du chœur
2005
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Les Disques de Rivka
2005
8.0
24 Passions
2004
6.0
The Vanishing Lion
2003
9.0
Racines
2002
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Chicago
2002
10.0
Algérie, la vie toujours
2001
7.0
Le voyage à la mer
2001NR
Oh My America
2000
5.0
Mailer on Mailer
20006.5
Cities of the Plain
2000
5.8
The Zsigmondy System
2000
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Vilnius
2000
6.7
Genet à Chatila
1999
10.0
Algeria, Life Goes On
1998
7.5
Reprise
1997
6.0
Walk the Walk
1996
9.5
Architectures
1996
6.7
At All Costs
1995
9.0
Life Is Boundless and Full of Dangers
1995
7.6
Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary
1994
7.5
More and More
1994
5.0
Poor George
1993NR
The Wheel
1993
10.0
Brothers in Arms
1992
5.8
La Cabale des oursins
1992
5.8
Transit
1991
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Mémoires d'ex
1991
7.0
Louvre City
1990
7.4
Route One/USA
1989
7.2
The Seats of the Alcazar
1989
6.1
The Comedy of Work
1988
5.5
Opening Essay
1988
10.0
Trilogy for One Man
1987
7.5
The Media Waltz
1987
4.3
A Better Life
1985
6.5
The Terrible Lovers
1985
6.7
Barres
1984
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Bangkok-Bahrain
1984
7.0
Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film
1983
NR
La Bête noire
1983
6.1
Field Diary
1982
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Le Dos au mur
1981
6.6
My First Breaststroke
1981
5.0
That Kid
1976
8.0
Right of Access
1965