
Henri Colpi
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1921-07-15
Day of Death
2006-01-14 (84 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
Acting
(1995)
(1995)
(1990)
The Elegant Criminal
as The head of the prison
Crew
Bilocation
Editor
(1986)
The Sacrifice
Thanks
(1986)
Le sphinx
Editor
(1982)
The Big Brother
Editor
(1981)
Fruits of Passion
Editor
(1979)
The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 2
Associate Producer, Editor
(1977)
Bilitis
Editor, Technical Advisor
(1973)
The Mysterious Island
Director, Writer
(1971)
Rafael Kubelik A Portrait
Director
(1970)
Happy He Who Like Ulysses
Director, Writer
(1969)
Destroy, She Said
Editor
(1967)
(1966)
The Nameless Star
Director, Screenplay
(1963)
Codine
Director, Editor, Screenplay
(1961)
The Long Absence
Director
(1961)
Last Year at Marienbad
Editor
(1960)
Paris la belle
Editor
(1959)
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Editor
(1959)
Monsieur Tête
Editor
(1959)
Night and Fog
Sound Recordist
(1958)
Les hommes de la baleine
Editor
(1958)
The Sea and the Days
Editor
(1958)
Along the Coast
Editor
(1958)
The First Night
Editor
(1957)
Chères vieilles choses
Editor
(1957)
A King in New York
Assistant Editor
(1957)
La Déroute
Editor
(1956)
The Mystery of Picasso
Editor