Henri Alekan

Known For: Camera
Born: February 10, 1909
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Died: June 15, 2001

Henri Alekan

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 Holl…

Filmography

Jean Cocteau, cinéaste

2001 · Self

Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths

1997 · Self

Screening at the Majestic

1997 · Self - Interviewee

Le travail d'un cinéaste : Julien Duvivier, 1896-1967

Le travail d'un cinéaste : Julien Duvivier, 1896-1967

1996 · Self

Carné, You Said Carné?

Carné, You Said Carné?

1994 · Self

Faraway, So Close!

1993 · Captain

Golem: The Petrified Garden

1993 · Director of Photography

Golem, the Spirit of Exile

1992 · Director of Photography

The Other Eye

1991 · Self

paint'o jazz

1991 · Director of Photography

Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren

1990 · Self

Birth of a Golem

1990 · Director of Photography

Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet

1990 · Director of Photography

J'écris dans l'espace

J'écris dans l'espace

1989 · Director of Photography

Berlin-Jerusalem

Berlin-Jerusalem

1989 · Director of Photography

Alekan, la lumière

1988 · Self

Wings of Desire

1987 · Director of Photography

40° à l'ombre

40° à l'ombre

1987 · Self

Esther

1986 · Director of Photography

A Strange Love Affair

1985 · Director of Photography

7 False Connections

1984 · Self

Wundkanal

1984 · Director of Photography

Cinématon XXXIV

1984 · N°330

Cinématon n°330 : Henri Alekan

Cinématon n°330 : Henri Alekan

1984 · Self

Our Nazi

1984 · Self, Director of Photography

A Stone in the Mouth

1983 · Director of Photography

The Beautiful Prisoner

1983 · Director of Photography

En rachâchant

1982 · Director of Photography

The Trout

1982 · Director of Photography

The State of Things

1982 · Director of Photography

On Top of the Whale

1982 · Director of Photography

The Territory

1981 · Director of Photography

La Dame de Monte-Carlo

La Dame de Monte-Carlo

1979 · Cinematography

The Divisions of Nature

1978 · Director of Photography

Gun Moll

1975 · Director of Photography

Red Sun

1971 · Director of Photography

Figures in a Landscape

1970 · Director of Photography

Fun and Games for Everyone

1969 · Director of Photography

The Christmas Tree

1969 · Director of Photography

Ici et maintenant

1969 · Director of Photography

Mayerling

1968 · Director of Photography

Triple Cross

1966 · Director of Photography

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

1966 · Director of Photography

Lady L

1965 · Director of Photography

Topkapi

1964 · Director of Photography

The Story of Rebecca

1964 · Director of Photography

The Other Christopher

1963 · Director of Photography

Five Miles to Midnight

1962 · Director of Photography

Black Tights

1961 · Director of Photography

The Battle of Austerlitz

1960 · Director of Photography

The Great Deception

1959 · Director of Photography

Twelve Hours by the Clock

1959 · Director of Photography

Rodin's Hell

1959 · Director of Photography

The Magic of the Kite

1958 · Director of Photography

Would-Be Gentleman

1958 · Director of Photography

Paris Casino

1957 · Director of Photography

The Case of Dr. Laurent

1957 · Director of Photography

Typhoon Over Nagasaki

1957 · Director of Photography

The Best Part

1955 · Director of Photography

Heroes and Sinners

1955 · Camera Operator

Frou-Frou

1955 · Director of Photography

Queen Margot

1954 · Director of Photography

The Impure Ones

1954 · Director of Photography

Roman Holiday

1953 · Director of Photography

When You Read This Letter

1953 · Director of Photography

Julietta

1953 · Director of Photography

Forbidden Fruit

1952 · Director of Photography

Three Women

1952 · Director of Photography

Stranger on the Prowl

1952 · Priest on Bicycle, Director of Photography

Paris Is Always Paris

1951 · Director of Photography

Trip to America

1951 · Director of Photography

German Film Award

German Film Award

1951 · Self

Juliette, or Key of Dreams

1951 · Director of Photography

Just Me

1950 · Director of Photography

Marie of the Port

1950 · Director of Photography

The Lovers of Verona

1949 · Director of Photography

Such a Pretty Little Beach

1949 · Director of Photography

Anna Karenina

1948 · Director of Photography

Woman of Evil

1947 · Director of Photography

The Damned

1947 · Director of Photography

Beauty and the Beast

1946 · Director of Photography

The Battle of the Rails

1946 · Director of Photography

The Little Ones of the Flower Platform

1944 · Director of Photography

Les Chevaux du Vercors

1943 · Camera Operator

Ceux du rail

1943 · Director of Photography

Blind Venus

1941 · Director of Photography

The Musicians of the Sky

1940 · Cinematography

The Shanghai Drama

1938 · Assistant Camera

Port of Shadows

1938 · Camera Operator

Hatred

1938 · Camera Operator

La Danseuse rouge

1937 · Director of Photography

Street of Shadows

1937 · Assistant Camera

Life Is Ours

1936 · Director of Photography

Fanny

1932 · Assistant Camera

Henri Alekan · Virelixia