Henri Alekan
Highest Rated: 100% The Damned (1946)
Lowest Rated: 29% Lady L (1965)
Birthday: Feb 10, 1909
Birthplace: Paris, France
One of France's most distinguished, and versatile, cinematographers, Henri Alekan became an assistant camera operator in 1929 and graduated to director of photography as a member of the French Resistance (he had escaped from a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1940). He made his mark in black and white in the 1940s. Rene Clement's "Battle of the Rails" (1945), an expansion of Clement's short documentary, allowed Alekan to beautifully capture the acts of sabotage and fights between the railway workers and Germans. His lyrical precision and sober yet sensitive abilities achieved their apotheosis with Jean Cocteau's "La Belle et le bete/Beauty and the Beast" (1945), in which he created a poetic atmosphere that was a perfect harmony of images, using contrasts to create plays of light and shadows in ways that invoked artists like de Hooch and Vermeer.
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Golem, the Spirit of the Exile | Cinematographer | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cézanne - Dialogue avec Joachim Gasquet (Les éditions Bernheim-Jeune) | Cinematographer | - | 1990 |
| 97% | 93% | Wings of Desire | Cinematographer | $120.8K | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Esther | Cinematographer | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On Top of the Whale | Cinematographer | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Our Nazi | Cinematographer | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | En rachâchant | Cinematographer | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | The Territory | Cinematographer | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Triple Cross | Cinematographer | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | The Poppy Is Also a Flower | Cinematographer | - | 1966 |
| 29% | 29% | Lady L | Cinematographer | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Black Tights | Cinematographer | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Twelve Hours by the Clock | Cinematographer | - | 1959 |
| 95% | 93% | Roman Holiday | Cinematographer | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | When You Read This Letter | Cinematographer | $15.2K | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Marie du Port | Cinematographer | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | Such a Pretty Little Beach | Cinematographer | - | 1948 |
| 100% | 89% | The Damned | Cinematographer | - | 1946 |
| 95% | 90% | Beauty and the Beast | Cinematographer | $138.2K | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | The Battle of the Rails | Cinematographer | - | 1945 |