Henri Alekan
Camera
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.
Known for
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movieGolem: The Petrified Garden
1993
Director of Photography
movieGolem, the Spirit of Exile
1992
Director of Photography
paint'o jazz
1991
Director of Photography
movieBirth of a Golem
1990
Director of Photography
movieCézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet
1990
Director of Photography
J'écris dans l'espace
1989
Director of Photography
Berlin-Jerusalem
1989
Director of Photography
movieWings of Desire
1987
Director of Photography
movieEsther
1986
Director of Photography
movieA Strange Love Affair
1985
Director of Photography
movieWundkanal
1984
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movieOur Nazi
1984
Director of Photography
movieA Stone in the Mouth
1983
Director of Photography
movieThe Beautiful Prisoner
1983
Director of Photography
movieEn rachâchant
1982
Director of Photography
movieThe Trout
1982
Director of Photography
movieThe State of Things
1982
Director of Photography
movieOn Top of the Whale
1982
Director of Photography
movieThe Territory
1981
Director of Photography
movieThe Divisions of Nature
1978
Director of Photography
movieGun Moll
1975
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movieRed Sun
1971
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movieFigures in a Landscape
1970
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movieFun and Games for Everyone
1969
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movieThe Christmas Tree
1969
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movieIci et maintenant
1969
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movieMayerling
1968
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movieTriple Cross
1966
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movieThe Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
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movieLady L
1965
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movieTopkapi
1964
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movieThe Story of Rebecca
1964
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movieThe Other Christopher
1963
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movieFive Miles to Midnight
1962
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movieBlack Tights
1961
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movieAusterlitz
1960
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movieThe Great Deception
1959
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movieTwelve Hours by the Clock
1959
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Rodin's Hell
1959
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movieThe Magic of the Kite
1958
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movieWould-Be Gentleman
1958
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movieParis Casino
1957
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movieThe Case of Dr. Laurent
1957
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movieTyphoon Over Nagasaki
1957
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movieThe Best Part
1955
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movieHeroes and Sinners
1955
Camera Operator
movieFrou-Frou
1955
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movieQueen Margot
1954
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movieThe Impure Ones
1954
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movieRoman Holiday
1953
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movieWhen You Read This Letter
1953
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movieJulietta
1953
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movieForbidden Fruit
1952
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movieThree Women
1952
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movieStranger on the Prowl
1952
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movieParis Is Always Paris
1951
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movieTrip to America
1951
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movieJuliette, or Key of Dreams
1951
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movieJust Me
1950
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movieMarie of the Port
1950
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movieThe Lovers of Verona
1949
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movieSuch a Pretty Little Beach
1949
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movieAnna Karenina
1948
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movieWoman of Evil
1947
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movieThe Damned
1947
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movieBeauty and the Beast
1946
Director of Photography
movieThe Battle of the Rails
1946
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movieThe Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944
Director of Photography
movieLes Chevaux du Vercors
1943
Camera Operator
Ceux du rail
1943
Director of Photography
movieBlind Venus
1941
Director of Photography
movieThe Shanghai Drama
1938
Assistant Camera
moviePort of Shadows
1938
Camera Operator
movieHatred
1938
Camera Operator
movieLa Danseuse rouge
1937
Director of Photography
movieStreet of Shadows
1937
Assistant Camera
movieLife Is Ours
1936
Director of Photography
movieFanny
1932
Assistant Camera
Acting17
movieScreening at the Majestic
1997
Self - Interviewee
movieFaraway, So Close!
1993
Captain
movieStranger on the Prowl
1952
Priest on Bicycle
Crew2
La Dame de Monte-Carlo
1979
Cinematography
movieThe Musicians of the Sky
1940
Cinematography