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The cinematographer Henri Alekan belongs to the great movie artists
of the French film whose easily remembered pictures influenced the cinema
strongly.
His first works behind the camera came in the 30's into being like "La
vie est à nous" (36) and "La danseuse rouge" (37).
He had his great breakthrough in the 40's where he shot some masterpieces,
at the htead Jean Cocteau's "La belle et la bête" (46). Other movies
of the 40's were "L'émigrante" (40), "Les petites du quai aux fleurs"
(44), "La bataille du rail" (46), "Les maudits" (47), "Anna Karenina" (48)
and "Les amants de Vérone" (49).
Henri Alekan worked for other popular productions in the 50's and 60's,
among them also first international products. The film "Roman Holiday"
(53) with Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn is definitely the best-known
of them. He was nominated for an Oscar for this work.
To his other well-known movies of those years belong "La marie du port"
(50), "Julietta" (53), "La Reine Margot" (54), "Frou-Frou" (55), "Casino
de Paris" (57), "Le mariage de Figaro" (59), "Austerlitz" (60), "Les parisiennes"
(62), "Topkapi" (64), "Lady L" (65) and "Mayerling" (68).
After that he reduced his activity and used the camera only occasionally.
To his last great movies belong "Soleil rouge" (71), "Der Stand der
Dinge" (82), "Der Himmel über Berlin" (87) and "J'écris dans
l'espace" (89).
Besides his activity as a cinematographer he also advocated important
theories about the nature of the light he announced in lectures and books.
He was awarded with a César in 1983.
Other movies from Henri Alekan:
Les musiciens du ciel (40) Tobie est un ange (40) Vénus
aveugle (41) Ceux du rail (42) Echec au roy (45) Le diable souffle (47)
Une si jolie petite plage (49) Ma pomme (50) Juliette ou la clé
des songes (50) Le voyage en Amérique (51) Imbarco a mezzanotte
(51) Le fruit défendu (52) Parigi e sempre Parigi (52) Trois femmes:
Boitelle (52) Les amours finissent à l'aube (53) Quand tu liras
cette lettre (53) Zoé (54) Les héros sont fatigués
(55) Les impures (55) Le port du désir (55) La meilleure part (56)
Le salaire du péché (56) Un matin comme les autres (56) Typhon
sur Nagasaki (57) Le cas du Dr. Laurent (57) Le bourgeois gentilhomme (58)
Cerf-volant du bout du monde (58) Douze heures d'horloge (59) Le secret
du Chevalier d'Eon (59) La princesse de Clèves (60) 1-2-3-4 ou Les
Collants noirs (60) Le couteau dans la plaie (62) La caméra explore
le temps: La vérité sur l'affaire du courrier de Lyon (63)
El otro Cristobal (63) Le récit de Rebecca (64) Poppies Are Also
Flowers (66) La fantastique histoire vraie d'Eddie Chapman (67) L'arbre
de Noël (69) Figures in a Landscape (70) Les divisions de la nature
(78) La dame de Monte Carlo (79) The Territory (81) La truite (82) En rachachant
(82) Het dak van de Walvis (82) La belle captive (83) Une pierre dans la
bouche (83) A Strange Love Affair (84) Notre nazi (84) Wundkanal (85) Esther
(86) Berlin-Yerushalaim (89) Naissance d'un Golem (91) Golem, l'esrpit
de l'exil (92) Golem, le jardin pétrifié (93)
Actor:
Imbarco a mezzanotte (51) Naissance d'un Golem (91) In
weiter Ferne, so nah! (93) |
