Known For
Directing
Known Credits
3
Gender
Male
Birthday
July 15, 1921 (104 years old)
Place of Birth
Brig, Valais, Switzerland
Henri Colpi (French: [kɔlpi]; 15 July 1921 – 14 January 2006) was a French film editor and film director.
Colpi graduated from the IDHEC in 1947. During 1950 to 1960, he edited films for such notable French New Wave directors as Agnès Varda and Georges Franju.
Colpi directed the 1961 film Une aussi longue absence, which is well known for sharing the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival with Viridiana, directed by Luis Buñuel. Une aussi longue absence was written by Marguerite Duras, featured Alida Valli in a major role, and included music by Georges Delerue. It also won the Louis Delluc Prize in 1960. His second feature Codine was also screening in competition at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, where Colpi won the prize for Best Screenplay.
Colpi is also noted as a film editor with about 20 credits, including Alain Resnais' films Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961). He edited André Antoine's forgotten film L'Hirondelle et la Mésange (The Swallow and the Titmouse) to a 79-minute feature that premiered in 1984. Antoine initially shot six hours of footage.
In addition to directing, editing, acting, sound recording, and a variety of functions in the post-War years, he was featured in a French television series, L'Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (The History of French Cinema By Those Who Made It) in 1974, and he continued to work into the 1990s.
| 1986 | The Sacrifice...Thanks | |
| 1977 | Bilitis...Technical Advisor |
| 1986 | Le sphinx...Editor | |
| 1982 | The Big Brother...Editor | |
| 1981 | Fruits of Passion...Editor | |
| 1979 | The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 2...Editor | |
| 1977 | Bilitis...Editor | |
| 1969 | Destroy, She Said...Editor | |
| 1965 | Entwürfe und Träume...Editor | |
| 1963 | Codine...Editor | |
| 1961 | Last Year at Marienbad...Editor | |
| 1960 | Paris la belle...Editor | |
| 1959 | Hiroshima Mon Amour...Editor | |
| 1959 | Monsieur Tête...Editor | |
| 1958 | Along the Coast...Editor | |
| 1958 | The First Night...Editor | |
| 1958 | The Sea and the Days...Editor | |
| 1958 | Les hommes de la baleine...Editor | |
| 1957 | A King in New York...Assistant Editor | |
| 1957 | La Déroute...Editor | |
| 1957 | Chères vieilles choses...Editor | |
| 1956 | The Mystery of Picasso...Editor | |
| Bilocation...Editor |
| 1979 | The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 2...Associate Producer |
| 1975 | Le Pèlerinage...Director | |
| 1973 | Mysterious Island...Director | |
| 1973 | The Mysterious Island...Director | |
| 1971 | Rafael Kubelik A Portrait...Director | |
| 1970 | Noële aux quatre vents...Director | |
| 1970 | Happy He Who Like Ulysses...Director | |
| 1969 | Fortune...Director | |
| 1968 | Thibaud ou les Croisades...Director | |
| 1967 | Symphonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur opus 55 (Eroica) von Ludwig van Beethoven...Director | |
| 1966 | The Nameless Star...Director | |
| 1963 | Codine...Director | |
| 1961 | The Long Absence...Director |
| 1973 | The Mysterious Island...Writer | |
| 1970 | Happy He Who Like Ulysses...Writer | |
| 1966 | The Nameless Star...Screenplay | |
| 1963 | Codine...Screenplay |
| 1956 | Night and Fog...Sound Recordist |
| 1995 | Life Lessonas | |
| 1995 | Music for the Movies: Georges Delerueas Self | |
| 1990 | The Elegant Criminalas The head of the prison |