Richard Copans
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.
Fotos
Películas (72)
A Body of One's Own
2026 · Producer
Fire of Wind
2026 · Co-Producer
Un été à la ferme - L'âge d'or
2026 · Producer
Hommage à la Catalogne
2025 · Producer
Girl for a Day
2024 · Producer
Looking for Robert
2024 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
The Trial
2023 · Co-Producer
Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God
2022 · Producer
Une semaine sainte
2020 · Cinematography
Mon amour
2020 · Producer
Monsieur Deligny, vagabond efficace
2020 · Director
Inside My Heart
2018 · Producer
6999 Doors
2018 · Producer
120 ans d'inventions au cinéma
2016 · Producer
Architectures : La Santé, une prison dans Paris
2016 · Writer, Camera Operator
Austerlitz
2015 · Producer
Autour de 24 Passions
2015 · Cinematography
Un amour (Roman)
2015 · Director, Screenplay
Cinéma documentaire, Fragments d'une histoire
2014 · Producer, Cinematography
Gare du Nord
2013 · Director of Photography
Human Geography
2013 · Producer
Lullaby to my Father
2012 · Cinematography
Islamic Art at the Louvre - The Outstretched Hand
2012 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Eye of the Astronomer
2012 · Producer
Land of Madness
2009 · Producer
God's Offices
2008 · Producer
Death's Glamour
2007 · Le producteur
Bania
2005 · Producer
Les métamorphoses du chœur
2005 · Producer
Les Disques de Rivka
2005 · Director
24 Passions
2004 · Producer
The Vanishing Lion
2003 · Thanks
Racines
2002 · Director
Chicago
2002 · Director, Cinematography
Algérie, la vie toujours
2001 · Delegated Producer
Le voyage à la mer
2001 · Producer
Oh My America
2000 · Director
Mailer on Mailer
2000 · Director
Cities of the Plain
2000 · Producer
The Zsigmondy System
2000 · Executive Producer
Vilnius
2000 · Director
Genet à Chatila
1999 · Producer
Algeria, Life Goes On
1998 · Production Accountant
Reprise
1997 · Producer
Walk the Walk
1996 · Cinematography
At All Costs
1995 · Producer
Life Is Boundless and Full of Dangers
1995 · Producer
Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary
1994 · Producer
More and More
1994 · Producer
Poor George
1993 · Associate Producer
The Wheel
1993 · Director
Brothers in Arms
1992 · Director, Cinematography, Writer
La Cabale des oursins
1992 · Self - Director of Photography, Director of Photography
Transit
1991 · Director of Photography
Louvre City
1990 · Cinematography
Route One/USA
1989 · Director of Photography
The Seats of the Alcazar
1989 · Director of Photography
The Comedy of Work
1988 · Director of Photography
Opening Essay
1988 · Cinematography
Trilogy for One Man
1987 · Cinematography
The Media Waltz
1987 · Cinematography
A Better Life
1985 · Director of Photography
The Terrible Lovers
1985 · Director of Photography
Barres
1984 · Director of Photography
Bangkok-Bahrain
1984 · Cinematography
Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film
1983 · Director of Photography
La Bête noire
1983 · Director of Photography
Field Diary
1982 · Production Manager
Le Dos au mur
1981 · Sound
My First Breaststroke
1981 · Cinematography
That Kid
1976 · Cinematography
Right of Access
1965 · Assistant Director
