Henri Alekan

Portrait of Henri Alekan

Henri Alekan (10 February 1909 Paris, France – 15 June 2001) was a French cinematographer.

From the 1930s he was involved in many classics of French cinema. His philosophy was one of 'light and shadows', which he practised impressively in movies like La Belle et la Bête (1946), La Bataille du rail (1946) and Der Himmel über Berlin (1987). In his long career, Alekan adapted his style to the script and the director he was working with.

Alekan died from leukemia on June 15, 2001 in Auxerre, Bourgogne, France, aged 92.

Filmography

• The People of France (1936)
• La Danseuse rouge (1937)
• Vénus aveugle (1941)
• Les Petites du quai aux fleurs (1944)
• La Bataille du rail 1946)
• La Belle et la bête (1946) (aka Beauty and the Beast)
• Les Maudits (1947)
• Une si jolie petite plage (1948) (aka Such a Pretty Little Beach or Riptide)
• Anna Karenina (1948)
• La Marie du port (1949)
• The Lovers of Verona (1949)
• Juliette ou la clef des songes (1950)
• Just Me (1950)
• Stranger on the Prowl (1951)
• Paris est toujours Paris (1952)
• The Voyage to America (1951)
• Trois femmes, trois âmes (1952)
• Trois femmes (1952) (segment "Boitelle")
• Roman Holiday (1953)
• Julietta (1953)
• Les Amours finissent à l'aube (1953)
• Quand tu liras cette lettre (1953)
• Zoé (1954)
• La Reine Margot (1954)
• Les Impures (1955)
• House on the Waterfront (1955)
• The Heroes Are Tired (1955) (aka Heroes and Sinners)
• The Toy Wife (1955)
• La Meilleure part (1956)
• Le Salaire du péché (1956)
• Typhoon Over Nagasaki (1957)
• The Case of Dr. Laurent (1957)
• Casino de Paris (1957)
• Cerf-volant du bout du monde (1958)
• Would-Be Gentleman (1958)
• Douze heures d'horloge (1959)
• Forbidden Fruit (1959)
• Marriage of Figaro (1959)
• Le Secret du Chevalier d'Éon (1959)
• Princesse de Clèves (1960)
• Black Tights (1960)
• The Battle of Austerlitz (1960)
• Tales of Paris (1962)
• Five Miles to Midnight (1963)
• Topkapi (1964)
• Lady L (1965)
• Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966) (aka Danger Grows Wild, The Opium Connection, The Poppy Is Also a Flower)
• Triple Cross (1966)
• Mayerling (1968)
• The Christmas Tree (1969) (aka When Wolves Cry)
• Figures in a Landscape (1970)
• The Magic of the Kite (1971)
• Red Sun (1971)
• The Territory (1981)
• I Write in Space (1989)
• Berlin-Jerusalem (1989)
• Golem, the Ghost of Exile (1992)
• The Trout (1982)
• The State of Things (1982)
• En rachachant (1982)
• On Top of the Whale (1982)
• The Beautiful Prisoner (1982)
• Une pierre dans la bouche (1983)
• A Strange Love Affair (1984)
• Our Nazi (1984)
• Wundkanal (1985)
• Esther (1986)
• Wings of Desire (1987)
• I Write in Space (1989)
• Berlin-Jerusalem (1989)
• Golem, the Ghost of Exile (1992)

External links

• Henri Alekan at the Internet Movie Database