Richard Copans
Directing
1947-11-25 · Paris, Île-de-France, France
Richard Copans, born November 25, 1947, is a French film producer, cinematographer, and director. After studying cinematography at IDHEC from 1966 to 1968, he worked as an assistant cameraman for Andréas Winding, Philippe Rousselot, Pierre Lhomme, and Yann Le Masson from 1969 to 1976. From 1973 to 1978, he was a cameraman and director with the far-left militant film collective Cinélutte, notably on Bonne chance la France! In 1978, he founded Les Films d’ici (GIE) and produced, among other films, Journal de campagne and Ananas by Amos Gitaï. In 1982, he founded Les Films du passage with Paulo Branco, and subsequently produced around fifteen feature films. In 1984, he founded Les Films d’ici (SARL) with Yves Jeanneau. They produced numerous documentaries, mainly with La Sept Arte, including Route One/USA and Point de départ by Robert Kramer, Mémoires d’Ex by Mosco and Check The Changes by Marc Huraux, Arthur Rimbaud, a biography by Richard Dindo, La vie est immense et pleine de danger and Et la vie by Denis Gheerbrant, Les Moissons de fer by Jean-Claude Lubtchansky and Gérard Rougeron, Les Enfants illégitimes d’Anton Webern by Lilia Ollivier.
Filmography
A Body of One's Own
2026 · Movie
Fire of Wind
2026 · Movie
Un été à la ferme - L'âge d'or
2026 · Movie
Hommage à la Catalogne
2025 · Movie
Girl for a Day
2024 · Movie
Looking for Robert
2024 · Movie
The Trial
2023 · Movie
Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God
2022 · Movie
Une semaine sainte
2020 · Movie
Mon amour
2020 · Movie
Monsieur Deligny, vagabond efficace
2020 · Movie
Inside My Heart
2018 · Movie
6999 Doors
2018 · Movie
120 ans d'inventions au cinéma
2016 · Movie
Architectures : La Santé, une prison dans Paris
2016 · Movie
Austerlitz
2015 · Movie
Autour de 24 Passions
2015 · Movie
Un amour (Roman)
2015 · Movie
Cinéma documentaire, Fragments d'une histoire
2014 · Movie
Gare du Nord
2013 · Movie
Human Geography
2013 · Movie
Lullaby to my Father
2012 · Movie
Islamic Art at the Louvre - The Outstretched Hand
2012 · Movie
Eye of the Astronomer
2012 · Movie
Land of Madness
2009 · Movie
God's Offices
2008 · Movie
Death's Glamour
2007 · Movie
Bania
2005 · Movie
Les métamorphoses du chœur
2005 · Movie
Les Disques de Rivka
2005 · Movie
24 Passions
2004 · Movie
The Vanishing Lion
2003 · Movie
Chicago
2002 · Movie
Racines
2002 · Movie
Le voyage à la mer
2001 · Movie
Algérie, la vie toujours
2001 · Movie
Oh My America
2000 · Movie
Mailer on Mailer
2000 · Movie
Cities of the Plain
2000 · Movie
The Zsigmondy System
2000 · Movie
Vilnius
2000 · Movie
Genet à Chatila
1999 · Movie
Algeria, Life Goes On
1998 · Movie
Reprise
1997 · Movie
Walk the Walk
1996 · Movie
Architectures
1996 · Series
At All Costs
1995 · Movie
Life Is Boundless and Full of Dangers
1995 · Movie
Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary
1994 · Movie
More and More
1994 · Movie
Poor George
1993 · Movie
The Wheel
1993 · Movie
Brothers in Arms
1992 · Movie
La Cabale des oursins
1992 · Movie
Transit
1991 · Movie
Mémoires d'ex
1991 · Series
Louvre City
1990 · Movie
Route One/USA
1989 · Movie
The Seats of the Alcazar
1989 · Movie
The Comedy of Work
1988 · Movie
Opening Essay
1988 · Movie
Trilogy for One Man
1987 · Movie
The Media Waltz
1987 · Movie
A Better Life
1985 · Movie
The Terrible Lovers
1985 · Movie
Barres
1984 · Movie
Bangkok-Bahrain
1984 · Movie
Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film
1983 · Movie
La Bête noire
1983 · Movie
Field Diary
1982 · Movie
Le Dos au mur
1981 · Movie
My First Breaststroke
1981 · Movie
That Kid
1976 · Movie
Right of Access
1965 · Movie