Known For
Directing
Born
Nov 25, 1947
Place of Birth
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Credits
74 titles
Richard Copans
Biography
Richard Copans, born November 25, 1947, is a French film producer, cinematographer, and director. After studying cinematography at IDHEC from 1966 to 1968, he worked as an assistant cameraman for Andréas Winding, Philippe Rousselot, Pierre Lhomme, and Yann Le Masson from 1969 to 1976. From 1973 to 1978, he was a cameraman and director with the far-left militant film collective Cinélutte, notably on Bonne chance la France! In 1978, he founded Les Films d’ici (GIE) and produced, among other films, Journal de campagne and Ananas by Amos Gitaï. In 1982, he founded Les Films du passage with Paulo Branco, and subsequently produced around fifteen feature films. In 1984, he founded Les Films d’ici (SARL) with Yves Jeanneau. They produced numerous documentaries, mainly with La Sept Arte, including Route One/USA and Point de départ by Robert Kramer, Mémoires d’Ex by Mosco and Check The Changes by Marc Huraux, Arthur Rimbaud, a biography by Richard Dindo, La vie est immense et pleine de danger and Et la vie by Denis Gheerbrant, Les Moissons de fer by Jean-Claude Lubtchansky and Gérard Rougeron, Les Enfants illégitimes d’Anton Webern by Lilia Ollivier.
Known For
Filmography
A Body of One's Own
Producer
Fire of Wind
Co-Producer
Un été à la ferme - L'âge d'or
Producer
Hommage à la Catalogne
Producer
Girl for a Day
Producer
Looking for Robert
Director
The Trial
Co-Producer
Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God
Producer
Une semaine sainte
Cinematography
Mon amour
Producer
Monsieur Deligny, vagabond efficace
Director
Inside My Heart
Producer
6999 Doors
Producer
120 ans d'inventions au cinéma
Producer
Architectures : La Santé, une prison dans Paris
Writer
Austerlitz
Producer
Autour de 24 Passions
Cinematography
Un amour (Roman)
Director
Cinéma documentaire, Fragments d'une histoire
Producer
Gare du Nord
Director of Photography
Human Geography
Producer
Lullaby to my Father
Cinematography
Islamic Art at the Louvre - The Outstretched Hand
Director
Eye of the Astronomer
Producer
Land of Madness
Producer
God's Offices
Producer
Death's Glamour
Le producteur
Bania
Producer
Les métamorphoses du chœur
Producer
Les Disques de Rivka
Director
24 Passions
Producer
The Vanishing Lion
Thanks
Chicago
Director
Racines
Director
Algérie, la vie toujours
Delegated Producer
Le voyage à la mer
Producer
Oh My America
Director
Mailer on Mailer
Director
Cities of the Plain
Producer
The Zsigmondy System
Executive Producer
Vilnius
Director
Genet à Chatila
Producer
Algeria, Life Goes On
Production Accountant
Reprise
Producer
Walk the Walk
Cinematography
Architectures
Director
At All Costs
Producer
Life Is Boundless and Full of Dangers
Producer
Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary
Producer
More and More
Producer