Known For
Directing
Born
Jul 15, 1921
Died
Jan 14, 2006
Place of Birth
Brig, Valais, Switzerland
Credits
37 titles
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
Filmography
Life Lesson
Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue
Self
The Elegant Criminal
The head of the prison
The Sacrifice
Thanks
Le sphinx
Editor
The Big Brother
Editor
Fruits of Passion
Editor
The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 2
Associate Producer
Bilitis
Editor
Le Pèlerinage
Director
Mysterious Island
Director
The Mysterious Island
Director
Rafael Kubelik A Portrait
Director
Noële aux quatre vents
Director
Happy He Who Like Ulysses
Director
Destroy, She Said
Editor
Fortune
Director
Thibaud ou les Croisades
Director
Symphonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur opus 55 (Eroica) von Ludwig van Beethoven
Director
The Nameless Star
Director
Entwürfe und Träume
Editor
Codine
Director
Last Year at Marienbad
Editor
The Long Absence
Director
Paris la belle
Editor
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Editor
Monsieur Tête
Editor
Along the Coast
Editor
The First Night
Editor
Les hommes de la baleine
Editor
The Sea and the Days
Editor
A King in New York
Assistant Editor
La Déroute
Editor
Chères vieilles choses
Editor
Night and Fog
Sound Recordist
The Mystery of Picasso
Editor
Bilocation
Editor