Richard Copans

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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.

Filmography

• A Body of One's Own (2026)
• Fire of Wind (2026)
• Un été à la ferme - L'âge d'or (2026)
• Hommage à la Catalogne (2025)
• Girl for a Day (2024)
• Looking for Robert (2024)
• The Trial (2023)
• Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God (2022)
• Une semaine sainte (2020)
• Mon amour (2020)
• Monsieur Deligny, vagabond efficace (2020)
• Inside My Heart (2018)
• 6999 Doors (2018)
• 120 ans d'inventions au cinéma (2016)
• Architectures : La Santé, une prison dans Paris (2016)
• Austerlitz (2015)
• Autour de 24 Passions (2015)
• Un amour (Roman) (2015)
• Cinéma documentaire, Fragments d'une histoire (2014)
• Gare du Nord (2013)
• Human Geography (2013)
• Lullaby to my Father (2012)
• Islamic Art at the Louvre - The Outstretched Hand (2012)
• Eye of the Astronomer (2012)
• Land of Madness (2009)
• God's Offices (2008)
• Death's Glamour (2007)
• Bania (2005)
• Les métamorphoses du chœur (2005)
• Les Disques de Rivka (2005)
• 24 Passions (2004)
• The Vanishing Lion (2003)
• Racines (2002)
• Chicago (2002)
• Algérie, la vie toujours (2001)
• Le voyage à la mer (2001)
• Oh My America (2000)
• Mailer on Mailer (2000)
• Cities of the Plain (2000)
• The Zsigmondy System (2000)
• Vilnius (2000)
• Genet à Chatila (1999)
• Algeria, Life Goes On (1998)
• Reprise (1997)
• Walk the Walk (1996)
• At All Costs (1995)
• Life Is Boundless and Full of Dangers (1995)
• Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary (1994)
• More and More (1994)
• Poor George (1993)
• The Wheel (1993)
• Brothers in Arms (1992)
• La Cabale des oursins (1992)
• Transit (1991)
• Louvre City (1990)
• Route One/USA (1989)
• The Seats of the Alcazar (1989)
• The Comedy of Work (1988)
• Opening Essay (1988)
• Trilogy for One Man (1987)
• The Media Waltz (1987)
• A Better Life (1985)
• The Terrible Lovers (1985)
• Barres (1984)
• Bangkok-Bahrain (1984)
• Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film (1983)
• La Bête noire (1983)
• Field Diary (1982)
• Le Dos au mur (1981)
• My First Breaststroke (1981)
• That Kid (1976)
• Right of Access (1965)