Alain Douarinou

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Alain Douarinou (born March 5, 1909 in Saigon , French Indochina , † September 3, 1987 in Paimpol , France ) was a French cameraman .

Live and act

Born in the former French colony of Indochina, the younger brother of the film architect Jean Douarinou had trained with the French merchant navy before switching to film in 1932. There Douarinou learned his practical craft as an assistant to the respected cameramen Nicolas Hayer , Christian Matras and Armand Thirard . From 1934 Alain Douarinou received orders as chief cameraman for mostly less important films, but during this time he was also able to work twice with Jean Renoir . Douarinou's career was suddenly interrupted by the outbreak of World War II.

After 1945 Douarinou received no more orders as chief cameraman and had to be content with the subordinate function of a simple cameraman. There, however, he achieved some remarkable achievements, in the first half of the 1950s especially in films by Max Ophüls , where Douarinou worked with his teacher Matras. Douarinou introduced innovations in Ophüls' productions; he preferred to use a high camera crane to take special shots from unusual angles. Later, Alain Douarinou often worked with directors Gérard Oury and Claude Chabrol , where he served several times under the head cameraman Henri Decaë .

Alain Douarinou retired in the mid-1970s. He and his wife spent his old age in the extreme south-east of France, near Saint-Tropez . His wife last ran an antique shop in the small village of Sainte-Maxime . Alain Douarinou died in 1987 in the far north-west of France, in Brittany .

Filmography

as head cameraman:

  • 1934: Cartouche
  • 1936: Blanchette
  • 1936: Life is ours (La vie est à nous)
  • 1937: L'Occident
  • 1938: The Marseillaise (La Marseillaise)
  • 1938: Place de la Concorde
  • 1939: Menaces
  • 1939: December night (La Nuit de décembre)

as a simple cameraman:

literature

  • International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) (ed.): International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers of Film. Vol. 2: France. Ed. by Alfred Krautz. Munich / New York / London / Paris 1983. p. 156 ff.

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personal data
SURNAME Douarinou, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Saigon , French Indochina
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1987
Place of death Paimpol , France