Henri Alekan

Age: N/A | From: Paris, France

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Aliases: Henri Albert Alakan , H. Alekan , Henry Alekan , Henri Alékan

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Paris, France

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Movie Involvements: 89

TV Involvements: 1

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Biography

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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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
1997	Self	Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths 1997-02-22 Movie
	Self - Interviewee	Screening at the Majestic 1997-01-01 Movie
1996	Self	Le travail d'un cinéaste : Julien Duvivier, 1896-1967 1996-08-13 Movie
1994	N/A	Carné, You Said Carné? 1994-12-31 Movie
1993	Captain	Faraway, So Close! 1993-09-01 Movie
1991	Self	The Other Eye 1991-09-25 Movie
1990	Self	Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren 1990-09-03 Movie
1988	Self	Alekan, la lumière 1988-08-04 Movie
1984	Self	7 False Connections 1984-12-05 Movie
	N°330	Cinématon XXXIV 1984-06-21 Movie
	Self	Cinématon n°330 : Henri Alekan 1984-05-25 Movie
	Self	Our Nazi 1984-01-27 Movie
1952	Priest on Bicycle	Stranger on the Prowl 1952-03-12 Movie
1951	Self	Deutscher Filmpreis 1951-01-01 TV Show
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Camera

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1993	Director of Photography	Golem: The Petrified Garden 1993-01-01 Movie
1992	Director of Photography	Golem, l'esprit de l'exil 1992-09-24 Movie
1991	Director of Photography	paint'o jazz 1991-01-01 Movie
1990	Director of Photography	Birth of a Golem 1990-08-27 Movie
	Director of Photography	Cézanne – Conversation with Joachim Gasquet 1990-04-04 Movie
1989	Director of Photography	Berlin-Jerusalem 1989-02-03 Movie
1987	Director of Photography	Wings of Desire 1987-09-23 Movie
1986	Director of Photography	Esther 1986-01-01 Movie
1985	Director of Photography	New Order: The Perfect Kiss 1985-11-01 Movie
	Director of Photography	A Strange Love Affair 1985-09-26 Movie
1984	Director of Photography	Wundkanal 1984-08-29 Movie
	Director of Photography	Our Nazi 1984-01-27 Movie
1983	Director of Photography	A Stone in the Mouth 1983-10-05 Movie
	Director of Photography	The Beautiful Prisoner 1983-02-16 Movie
1982	Director of Photography	En rachâchant 1982-11-13 Movie
	Director of Photography	The Trout 1982-09-22 Movie
	Director of Photography	The State of Things 1982-03-22 Movie
	Director of Photography	On Top of the Whale 1982-02-04 Movie
1981	Director of Photography	The Territory 1981-09-01 Movie
1978	Director of Photography	The Divisions of Nature 1978-01-01 Movie
1975	Director of Photography	Gun Moll 1975-01-21 Movie
1971	Director of Photography	Red Sun 1971-09-15 Movie
1970	Director of Photography	Figures in a Landscape 1970-11-12 Movie
1969	Director of Photography	Fun and Games for Everyone 1969-12-22 Movie
	Director of Photography	The Christmas Tree 1969-09-25 Movie
	Director of Photography	Ici et maintenant 1969-09-16 Movie
1968	Director of Photography	Mayerling 1968-10-31 Movie
1966	Director of Photography	Triple Cross 1966-12-09 Movie
	Director of Photography	The Poppy Is Also a Flower 1966-05-20 Movie
1965	Director of Photography	Lady L 1965-12-17 Movie
1964	Director of Photography	Topkapi 1964-09-02 Movie
	Director of Photography	The Story of Rebecca 1964-01-01 Movie
1963	Director of Photography	The Other Christopher 1963-05-14 Movie
1962	Director of Photography	Five Miles to Midnight 1962-12-12 Movie
1961	Director of Photography	Black Tights 1961-09-07 Movie
1960	Director of Photography	The Battle of Austerlitz 1960-06-17 Movie
1959	Director of Photography	The Great Deception 1959-09-23 Movie
	Director of Photography	Twelve Hours by the Clock 1959-04-21 Movie
	Director of Photography	Rodin's Hell 1959-01-01 Movie
1958	Director of Photography	The Magic of the Kite 1958-12-17 Movie
	Director of Photography	Would-Be Gentleman 1958-11-19 Movie
1957	Director of Photography	Paris Casino 1957-09-26 Movie
	Director of Photography	The Case of Dr. Laurent 1957-04-03 Movie
	Director of Photography	Typhoon Over Nagasaki 1957-02-06 Movie
1955	Director of Photography	The Best Part 1955-12-30 Movie
	Camera Operator	Heroes and Sinners 1955-09-12 Movie
	Director of Photography	Frou-Frou 1955-06-19 Movie
1954	Director of Photography	Queen Margot 1954-11-25 Movie
	Director of Photography	Les impures 1954-04-07 Movie
1953	Director of Photography	Roman Holiday 1953-08-26 Movie
	Director of Photography	When You Read This Letter 1953-07-26 Movie
	Director of Photography	Julietta 1953-06-17 Movie
1952	Director of Photography	Three Women 1952-08-13 Movie
	Director of Photography	Stranger on the Prowl 1952-03-12 Movie
1951	Director of Photography	Paris Is Always Paris 1951-11-15 Movie
	Director of Photography	Trip to America 1951-10-31 Movie
	Camera Operator	Juliette, or Key of Dreams 1951-05-18 Movie
1950	Director of Photography	Just Me 1950-11-15 Movie
	Director of Photography	Marie of the Port 1950-02-27 Movie
1949	Director of Photography	The Lovers of Verona 1949-03-07 Movie
	Director of Photography	Such a Pretty Little Beach 1949-01-19 Movie
1948	Director of Photography	Anna Karenina 1948-01-22 Movie
1947	Director of Photography	Woman of Evil 1947-09-23 Movie
	Director of Photography	The Damned 1947-09-19 Movie
1946	Director of Photography	Beauty and the Beast 1946-10-29 Movie
	Director of Photography	The Battle of the Rails 1946-02-27 Movie
1944	Director of Photography	The Little Ones of the Flower Platform 1944-05-26 Movie
1943	Camera Operator	Les Chevaux du Vercors 1943-10-31 Movie
1941	Director of Photography	Blind Venus 1941-09-14 Movie
1938	Assistant Camera	The Shanghai Drama 1938-09-23 Movie
	Camera Operator	Port of Shadows 1938-05-17 Movie
	Camera Operator	Hatred 1938-01-26 Movie
1937	Assistant Camera	Street of Shadows 1937-04-13 Movie
1936	Director of Photography	Life Is Ours 1936-04-07 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv