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Richard Copans
Paris, Île-de-France, France
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 assist…
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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.
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2026
A Body of One's Own
Movie Producer
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2026
Fire of Wind
Movie Co-Producer
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2026
Un été à la ferme - L'âge d'or
Movie Producer
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2025
Hommage à la Catalogne
Movie Producer
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2024
Girl for a Day
Movie Producer
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2024
Looking for Robert
Movie Director
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2023
The Trial
Movie Co-Producer
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2022
Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God
Movie Producer
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2020
Une semaine sainte
Movie Cinematography
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2020
Mon amour
Movie Producer
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2020
Monsieur Deligny, vagabond efficace
Movie Director
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2018
Inside My Heart
Movie Producer
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2018
6999 Doors
Movie Producer
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2016
120 ans d'inventions au cinéma
Movie Producer
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2016
Architectures : La Santé, une prison dans Paris
Movie Writer
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2015
Austerlitz
Movie Producer
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2015
Autour de 24 Passions
Movie Cinematography
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2015
Un amour (Roman)
Movie Director
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2014
Cinéma documentaire, Fragments d'une histoire
Movie Cinematography
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2013
Gare du Nord
Movie Director of Photography
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2013
Human Geography
Movie Producer
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2012
Lullaby to my Father
Movie Cinematography
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2012
Islamic Art at the Louvre - The Outstretched Hand
Movie Director
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2012
Eye of the Astronomer
Movie Producer
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2009
Land of Madness
Movie Producer
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2008
God's Offices
Movie Producer
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2007
Death's Glamour
Movie Le producteur
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2005
Bania
Movie Producer
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2005
Les métamorphoses du chœur
Movie Producer
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2005
Les Disques de Rivka
Movie Director
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2004
24 Passions
Movie Producer
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2003
The Vanishing Lion
Movie Thanks
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2002
Chicago
Movie Director
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2002
Racines
Movie Director
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2001
Algérie, la vie toujours
Movie Delegated Producer
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2001
Le voyage à la mer
Movie Producer
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2000
Oh My America
Movie Director
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2000
Mailer on Mailer
Movie Director
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2000
Cities of the Plain
Movie Producer
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2000
The Zsigmondy System
Movie Executive Producer
