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 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.
Le travail d'un cinéaste : Julien Duvivier, 1896-1967
(Self)
The Other Eye
(Self)
Our Nazi
(Self)
Carné, You Said Carné?
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
(Self)
Screening at the Majestic
(Self - Interviewee)
Alekan, la lumière
(Self)
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
(Self)
7 False Connections
(Self)
Cinématon XXXIV
(N°330)
Stranger on the Prowl
(Priest on Bicycle)
Faraway, So Close!
(Captain)
Cinématon n°330 : Henri Alekan
(Self)
Deutscher Filmpreis
(Self)
40° à l'ombre
(Self)
Wings of Desire
(Director of Photography)
Beauty and the Beast
(Director of Photography)
Roman Holiday
(Director of Photography)
The Case of Dr. Laurent
(Director of Photography)
Triple Cross
(Director of Photography)
Topkapi
(Director of Photography)
Red Sun
(Director of Photography)
The Trout
(Director of Photography)
Hatred
(Camera Operator)
Birth of a Golem
(Director of Photography)
Les Chevaux du Vercors
(Camera Operator)
Paris Casino
(Director of Photography)
Cézanne – Conversation with Joachim Gasquet
(Director of Photography)
Ici et maintenant
(Director of Photography)
The Divisions of Nature
(Director of Photography)
When You Read This Letter
(Director of Photography)
Fun and Games for Everyone
(Director of Photography)
Les impures
(Director of Photography)
Street of Shadows
(Assistant Camera)
The Shanghai Drama
(Assistant Camera)
La Dame de Monte-Carlo
(Cinematography)
Black Tights
(Director of Photography)
Golem, l'esprit de l'exil
(Director of Photography)
Our Nazi
(Director of Photography)
The Damned
(Director of Photography)
Three Women
(Director of Photography)
Twelve Hours by the Clock
(Director of Photography)
Golem: The Petrified Garden
(Director of Photography)
Anna Karenina
(Director of Photography)
Wundkanal
(Director of Photography)
Blind Venus
(Director of Photography)
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
(Director of Photography)
The Battle of Austerlitz
(Director of Photography)
Rodin's Hell
(Director of Photography)
The Other Christopher
(Director of Photography)
The State of Things
(Director of Photography)
Paris Is Always Paris
(Director of Photography)
Berlin-Jerusalem
(Director of Photography)
Trip to America
(Director of Photography)
Lady L
(Director of Photography)
The Territory
(Director of Photography)
The Story of Rebecca
(Director of Photography)
Gun Moll
(Director of Photography)
The Battle of the Rails
(Director of Photography)
Just Me
(Director of Photography)
On Top of the Whale
(Director of Photography)
A Strange Love Affair
(Director of Photography)
A Stone in the Mouth
(Director of Photography)
Esther
(Director of Photography)
The Beautiful Prisoner
(Director of Photography)
Five Miles to Midnight
(Director of Photography)
Figures in a Landscape
(Director of Photography)
Mayerling
(Director of Photography)
Marie of the Port
(Director of Photography)
En rachâchant
(Director of Photography)
J'écris dans l'espace
(Cinematography)
Rodin's Hell
(Director)
The Christmas Tree
(Director of Photography)
Julietta
(Director of Photography)
Queen Margot
(Director of Photography)
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
(Director of Photography)
paint'o jazz
(Director of Photography)
The Lovers of Verona
(Director of Photography)
Woman of Evil
(Director of Photography)
Such a Pretty Little Beach
(Director of Photography)
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
(Director of Photography)
Port of Shadows
(Camera Operator)
Heroes and Sinners
(Camera Operator)
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
(Camera Operator)
Life Is Ours
(Director of Photography)
The Best Part
(Director of Photography)
The Magic of the Kite
(Director of Photography)
Frou-Frou
(Director of Photography)
Would-Be Gentleman
(Director of Photography)
Stranger on the Prowl
(Director of Photography)
The Great Deception
(Director of Photography)