Raoul Coutard
Raoul Coutard (born September 16, 1924 in Paris , † November 8, 2016 in Labenne ) was a French cameraman and photographer .
Career
The Frenchman worked as a cameraman for the directors Jean-Luc Godard , François Truffaut , Jacques Demy and Jacques Rivette . The films of the Nouvelle Vague were decisively shaped by his work . He first tried his hand at directing in 1969 and turned the Vietnam drama Hoa-Binh . At the Cannes International Film Festival in 1970 , he received the award for best directorial debut. In 1978 he was awarded the César in the Best Camera category. At the 1982 Cannes International Film Festival he received the Grand prix technique for his camera work on Jean-Luc Godard's film Passion . In 1997 he received the International Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers . In 2001 he also received the Marburg Camera Prize .
Filmography
Camera:
- 1957: The Pass of the Devil (La passe du diable) - directed by Jacques Dupont, Pierre Schoendoerffer
- 1959: Out of breath (À bout de souffle)
- 1960: Shoot the Pianist (Tirez sur le pianiste)
- 1960: Chronicle of a Summer (Chronique d'un été) - directed by Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin
- 1960: The Little Soldier (Le petit soldat)
- 1960: The Adults (Les grandes personnes) - Director: Jean Valères
- 1960: A woman is a woman (Une femme est une femme)
- 1960: Lola, the girl from the harbor (Lola) - Director: Jacques Demy
- 1961: Jules and Jim (Jules et Jim)
- 1961: Love at twenty (L'amour à vingt ans)
- 1962: The story of Nana S. (Vivre sa vie)
- 1962: Die Karabinieri (Les carabiniers) - Director: Jean-Luc Godard
- 1962: The Doll - La poupée (La poupée) - Director: Jacques Baratier
- 1962: In the Hand of a Stronger (Et Satan conduit le bal) - Director: Grisha Dabat
- 1963: Contempt (Le Mépris)
- 1963: Holidays in Portugal (Vacances portugaises) - Director: Pierre Kast
- 1964: The 317th section (La 317e section) - Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer
- 1964: Women are to blame for everything (Les plus belles escroqueries du monde)
- 1964: The sweet skin (La peau douce)
- 1964: The outsider gang (La bande à part)
- 1964: A married woman (Une femme mariée)
- 1964: I was a male sex bomb (Un monsieur de compagnie)
- 1965: eleven o'clock at night (Pierrot le fou)
- 1965: Greetings to the Mafia (Je vous salue, Mafia!) - Director: Raoul J. Lévy
- 1965: Lemmy Caution against Alpha 60 (Alphaville)
- 1966: Silent weapons (L'éspion) - directed by Raoul J. Lévy
- 1966: Made in USA
- 1966: Only one woman on board (The Sailor from Gibraltar)
- 1966: Two or three things I know about her (Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle)
- 1967: The Horizon (L'horizon) - Director: Jacques Rouffio
- 1967: Weekend (Week End)
- 1967: The Chinese (La Chinoise)
- 1968: The bride wore black (La Mariée était en noir)
- 1968: Stern des Südens (The Southern Star) - Director: Sidney Hayers
- 1969: Z
- 1970: The Confession (L'Aveu)
- 1970: What would you do if you were me? (Etes-vous fiancée à un marin grec ou à un pilote de ligne?) - Director: Jean Aurel
- 1971: At the gateway to freedom lies the death certificate (Embassy) - Director: Gordon Hessler
- 1971: The five-leaf clover (La trèfle à cinq feuilles) - Director: Edmond Freess
- 1971: The Jerusalem File - Director: John Flynn
- 1971: Tender wishes (Les aveux et les plus doux) - directed by Édouard Molinaro
- 1973: The felt louse (L'Emmerdeur)
- 1973: Escape in a circle (Le Gang des otages)
- 1977: The warrior (Le crabe-tambour)
- 1982: Passion
- 1983: Duel without mercy (La Diagonale du fou)
- 1983: First name Carmen (Prénom Carmen) - Director: Jean-Luc Godard
- 1984: Das Flittchen (La Garce) - Director: Christine Pascal
- 1986: Max mon amour
- 1987: Fire (Fuegos) - Director: Alfredo Arias
- 1988: Burning beds
- 1988: Panther II - Ice cold as fire (Ne reveillez pas un flic qui there)
- 1989: Bastards (Peaux de vâches) - directed by Patricia Mazuy
- 1990: Bethune - Doktor und Held (Bethune: The Making of a Hero) - Director: Phillip Borsos
- 1990: The Peanut Cop (Il gèle en enfer) - Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
- 1990: The flying children (Les enfants volants) - Director: Guillaume Nicloux
- 1993: When love ignites (La naissance de l'amour) - directed by Philippe Garrel
Actor:
- 1993: Hotel de Suède, room 12 - On the trail of “Out of breath” - Direction: Claude Ventura, Xavier Villetard
Director:
- 1970: Hoa-Binh
- 1980: La légion saute sur Kolwezi
- 1982: SAS Malko - On behalf of the Pentagon (SAS à San Salvador)
literature
- Karl Prümm, Michael Neubauer, Peter Riedel (eds.): Raoul Coutard - cameraman of modernity. Schüren, Marburg 2004, ISBN 3-89472-355-6 .
Web links
- Raoul Coutard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Raoul Coutard in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cinéma: Mort de Raoul Coutard, opérateur mythique de la Nouvelle Vague . Liberation , November 8, 2016, accessed November 12, 2016 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coutard, Raoul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cameraman and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 2016 |
| Place of death | Labenne |