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Henri Alekan
Camera
10 Feb 1909
† 15 Jun 2001
Paris, France
Biography
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 w...
Also Known As
Henri Albert Alakan, H. Alekan, Henry Alekan, Henri Alékan
Photos
Henri Alekan's Movies
69%
Faraway, So Close!
01 Sept 1993
85%
Our Nazi
27 Jan 1984
64%
Stranger on the Prowl
12 Mar 1952
50%
Cinématon XXXIV
21 Jun 1984
75%
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
01 Jan 2001
0%
Le travail d'un cinéaste : Julien Duvivier, 1896-1967
13 Aug 1996
0%
The Other Eye
25 Sept 1991
0%
Carné, You Said Carné?
31 Dec 1994
0%
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
22 Feb 1997
0%
Screening at the Majestic
01 Jan 1997
0%
Alekan, la lumière
04 Aug 1988
0%
Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
03 Sept 1990
0%
7 False Connections
05 Dec 1984
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Cinématon n°330 : Henri Alekan
25 May 1984