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Henri Colpi

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
3

Gender
Male

Birthday
July 15, 1921 (104 years old)

Place of Birth
Brig, Valais, Switzerland

Henri Colpi

Biography

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.

Known For

Crew

1986The Sacrifice...Thanks
1977Bilitis...Technical Advisor

Editing

1986Le sphinx...Editor
1982The Big Brother...Editor
1981Fruits of Passion...Editor
1979The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 2...Editor
1977Bilitis...Editor
1969Destroy, She Said...Editor
1965Entwürfe und Träume...Editor
1963Codine...Editor
1961Last Year at Marienbad...Editor
1960Paris la belle...Editor
1959Hiroshima Mon Amour...Editor
1959Monsieur Tête...Editor
1958Along the Coast...Editor
1958The First Night...Editor
1958The Sea and the Days...Editor
1958Les hommes de la baleine...Editor
1957A King in New York...Assistant Editor
1957La Déroute...Editor
1957Chères vieilles choses...Editor
1956The Mystery of Picasso...Editor
Bilocation...Editor

Production

1979The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 2...Associate Producer

Directing

1975Le Pèlerinage...Director
1973Mysterious Island...Director
1973The Mysterious Island...Director
1971Rafael Kubelik A Portrait...Director
1970Noële aux quatre vents...Director
1970Happy He Who Like Ulysses...Director
1969Fortune...Director
1968Thibaud ou les Croisades...Director
1967Symphonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur opus 55 (Eroica) von Ludwig van Beethoven...Director
1966The Nameless Star...Director
1963Codine...Director
1961The Long Absence...Director

Writing

1973The Mysterious Island...Writer
1970Happy He Who Like Ulysses...Writer
1966The Nameless Star...Screenplay
1963Codine...Screenplay

Sound

1956Night and Fog...Sound Recordist

Acting

1995Life Lessonas
1995Music for the Movies: Georges Delerueas Self
1990The Elegant Criminalas The head of the prison