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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1909-02-10
- event Death Date 2001-06-15
- school Known for: Camera
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Le travail d'un cinéaste : Julien Duvivier, 1896-1967
1996-08-13
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The Other Eye
1991-09-25
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Our Nazi
1984-01-27
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Carné, You Said Carné?
1994-12-31
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Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997-02-22
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Screening at the Majestic
1997-01-01
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Alekan, la lumière
1988-08-04
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Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
1990-09-03
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7 False Connections
1984-12-05
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Cinématon XXXIV
1984-06-21
6.4
Stranger on the Prowl
1952-03-12
6.9
Faraway, So Close!
1993-09-01
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Cinématon n°330 : Henri Alekan
1984-05-25
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Deutscher Filmpreis
1951-01-01
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40° à l'ombre
1987-06-29
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Wings of Desire
1987-09-23
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Beauty and the Beast
1946-10-29
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Roman Holiday
1953-08-26
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The Case of Dr. Laurent
1957-04-03
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Triple Cross
1966-12-09
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Topkapi
1964-09-02
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Red Sun
1971-09-15
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The Trout
1982-09-22
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Hatred
1938-01-26
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Birth of a Golem
1990-08-27
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Les Chevaux du Vercors
1943-10-31
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Paris Casino
1957-09-26
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Cézanne: Conversation with Joachim Gasquet
1990-04-04
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Ici et maintenant
1969-09-16
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The Divisions of Nature
1978-01-01
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When You Read This Letter
1953-07-26
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Fun and Games for Everyone
1969-12-22
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Les impures
1954-04-07
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Street of Shadows
1937-04-13
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The Shanghai Drama
1938-09-23
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La Dame de Monte-Carlo
1979-01-01
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Black Tights
1961-09-07
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Golem, the Spirit of Exile
1992-09-24
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Our Nazi
1984-01-27
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The Damned
1947-09-19
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Three Women
1952-08-13
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Twelve Hours by the Clock
1959-04-21
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Golem: The Petrified Garden
1993-01-01
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Anna Karenina
1948-01-22
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Wundkanal
1984-08-29
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Blind Venus
1941-09-14
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The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
1944-05-26
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The Battle of Austerlitz
1960-06-17
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Rodin's Hell
1959-01-01
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The Other Christopher
1963-05-14
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The State of Things
1982-03-22
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Paris Is Always Paris
1951-11-15
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Berlin-Jerusalem
1989-02-03
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Trip to America
1951-10-31
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Lady L
1965-12-17
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The Territory
1981-09-01
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The Story of Rebecca
1964-01-01
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Gun Moll
1975-01-21
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The Battle of the Rails
1946-02-27
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Just Me
1950-11-15
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On Top of the Whale
1982-02-04
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A Strange Love Affair
1985-09-26
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A Stone in the Mouth
1983-10-05
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Esther
1986-01-01
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The Beautiful Prisoner
1983-02-16
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Five Miles to Midnight
1962-12-12
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Figures in a Landscape
1970-11-12
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Mayerling
1968-10-31
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Marie of the Port
1950-02-27
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En rachâchant
1982-11-13
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J'écris dans l'espace
1989-07-10
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Rodin's Hell
1959-01-01
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The Christmas Tree
1969-09-25
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Julietta
1953-06-17
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Queen Margot
1954-11-25
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966-05-20
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paint'o jazz
1991-01-01
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The Lovers of Verona
1949-03-07
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Woman of Evil
1947-09-23
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Such a Pretty Little Beach
1949-01-19
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Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1957-02-06
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Port of Shadows
1938-05-17
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Heroes and Sinners
1955-09-12
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Juliette, or Key of Dreams
1951-05-18
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Life Is Ours
1936-04-07
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The Best Part
1955-12-30
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The Magic of the Kite
1958-12-17
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Frou-Frou
1955-06-19
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Would-Be Gentleman
1958-11-19
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Stranger on the Prowl
1952-03-12
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The Great Deception
1959-09-23