Henri Alekan
Camera
1909-02-10 · Paris, France
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.
Filmography
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
2001 · Movie
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997 · Movie
Screening at the Majestic
1997 · Movie
Le travail d'un cinéaste : Julien Duvivier, 1896-1967
1996 · Movie
Carné, You Said Carné?
1994 · Movie
Faraway, So Close!
1993 · Movie
Golem: The Petrified Garden
1993 · Movie
Golem, the Spirit of Exile
1992 · Movie
The Other Eye
1991 · Movie
paint'o jazz
1991 · Movie
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
1990 · Movie
Birth of a Golem
1990 · Movie
Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet
1990 · Movie
J'écris dans l'espace
1989 · Movie
Berlin-Jerusalem
1989 · Movie
Alekan, la lumière
1988 · Movie
Wings of Desire
1987 · Movie
40° à l'ombre
1987 · Series
Esther
1986 · Movie
A Strange Love Affair
1985 · Movie
7 False Connections
1984 · Movie
Wundkanal
1984 · Movie
Cinématon XXXIV
1984 · Movie
Cinématon n°330 : Henri Alekan
1984 · Movie
Our Nazi
1984 · Movie
A Stone in the Mouth
1983 · Movie
The Beautiful Prisoner
1983 · Movie
En rachâchant
1982 · Movie
The State of Things
1982 · Movie
The Trout
1982 · Movie
On Top of the Whale
1982 · Movie
The Territory
1981 · Movie
La Dame de Monte-Carlo
1979 · Movie
Ciné regards
1978 · Series
The Divisions of Nature
1978 · Movie
Gun Moll
1975 · Movie
Red Sun
1971 · Movie
Figures in a Landscape
1970 · Movie
Fun and Games for Everyone
1969 · Movie
The Christmas Tree
1969 · Movie
Ici et maintenant
1969 · Movie
Mayerling
1968 · Movie
Triple Cross
1966 · Movie
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966 · Movie
Lady L
1965 · Movie
Topkapi
1964 · Movie
The Story of Rebecca
1964 · Movie
The Other Christopher
1963 · Movie
Five Miles to Midnight
1962 · Movie
Tales of Paris
1962 · Movie
Black Tights
1961 · Movie
Austerlitz
1960 · Movie
The Great Deception
1959 · Movie
Twelve Hours by the Clock
1959 · Movie
Rodin's Hell
1959 · Movie
The Magic of the Kite
1958 · Movie
Would-Be Gentleman
1958 · Movie
Paris Casino
1957 · Movie
The Case of Dr. Laurent
1957 · Movie
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1957 · Movie
The Best Part
1955 · Movie
Heroes and Sinners
1955 · Movie
Frou-Frou
1955 · Movie
Queen Margot
1954 · Movie
The Impure Ones
1954 · Movie
Roman Holiday
1953 · Movie
When You Read This Letter
1953 · Movie
Julietta
1953 · Movie
Forbidden Fruit
1952 · Movie
Three Women
1952 · Movie
Stranger on the Prowl
1952 · Movie
Paris Is Always Paris
1951 · Movie
Trip to America
1951 · Movie
German Film Award
1951 · Series
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
1951 · Movie
Just Me
1950 · Movie
Marie of the Port
1950 · Movie
The Lovers of Verona
1949 · Movie
Such a Pretty Little Beach
1949 · Movie
Anna Karenina
1948 · Movie
Woman of Evil
1947 · Movie
The Damned
1947 · Movie
Beauty and the Beast
1946 · Movie
The Battle of the Rails
1946 · Movie
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944 · Movie
Les Chevaux du Vercors
1943 · Movie
Ceux du rail
1943 · Movie
Blind Venus
1941 · Movie
The Musicians of the Sky
1940 · Movie
The Shanghai Drama
1938 · Movie
Port of Shadows
1938 · Movie
Hatred
1938 · Movie
La Danseuse rouge
1937 · Movie
Street of Shadows
1937 · Movie
Life Is Ours
1936 · Movie
Fanny
1932 · Movie