Henri Colpi

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1921-07-15

Deathday 2006-01-14 (84 years old)

Place of Birth Brig, Valais, Switzerland

Also Known As Анри Кольпи

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

Director

1975
Le Pèlerinage

as Director

1973
1973
Mysterious Island

as Director

1970
1969
Fortune

as Director

1968
1966
The Nameless Star

as Director

1963
Codine

as Director

1961
The Long Absence

as Director

Editor

Bilocation

as Editor

1986
Le sphinx

as Editor

1982
The Big Brother

as Editor

1981
1977
Bilitis

as Editor

1969
1963
Codine

as Editor

1960
Paris la belle

as Editor

1959
1959
Monsieur Tête

as Editor

1958
1958
Along the Coast

as Editor

1957
A King in New York

as Assistant Editor

1957
La Déroute

as Editor

Writer

1973
1966
The Nameless Star

as Screenplay

1963
Codine

as Screenplay

Actor

1990
The Elegant Criminal

as The head of the prison

Crew

1986
The Sacrifice

as Thanks

1977
Bilitis

as Technical Advisor

Producer

1979

Sound

1959
Night and Fog

as Sound Recordist