Richard Copans
Born: 1947-11-25 in Paris, Île-de-France, France
Known For: Directing
Biography
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
2026
- Un été à la ferme - L'âge d'or ... (Producer)
- A Body of One's Own ... (Producer)
2025
- Fire of Wind ... (Co-Producer)
- Hommage à la Catalogne ... (Producer)
2024
- Girl for a Day ... (Producer)
- Looking for Robert ... (Director)
2023
- The Trial ... (Co-Producer)
2022
- Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God ... (Producer)
2020
- Mon amour ... (Producer)
- Monsieur Deligny, vagabond efficace ... (Director)
- Une semaine sainte ... (Cinematography)
2018
- 6999 Doors ... (Producer)
- Inside My Heart ... (Producer)
2016
- 120 ans d'inventions au cinéma ... (Producer)
- Architectures : La Santé, une prison dans Paris ... (Writer)
2015
- Austerlitz ... (Producer)
- Un amour (Roman) ... (Director)
- Autour de 24 Passions ... (Cinematography)
2014
- Cinéma documentaire, Fragments d'une histoire ... (Producer)
2013
- Gare du Nord ... (Director of Photography)
- Human Geography ... (Producer)
2012
- Lullaby to my Father ... (Cinematography)
- Eye of the Astronomer ... (Producer)
- Islamic Art at the Louvre - The Outstretched Hand ... (Director)
2009
- Land of Madness ... (Producer)
2008
- God's Offices ... (Producer)
2007
- Death's Glamour as Le producteur
2005
- Bania ... (Producer)
- Les métamorphoses du chœur ... (Producer)
- Les Disques de Rivka ... (Director)
2004
- 24 Passions ... (Producer)
2003
- The Vanishing Lion ... (Thanks)
2001
- Algérie, la vie toujours ... (Delegated Producer)
- Le voyage à la mer ... (Producer)
2000
- The Zsigmondy System ... (Executive Producer)
- Mailer on Mailer ... (Director)
- Cities of the Plain ... (Producer)
- Vilnius ... (Director)
- Oh My America ... (Director)
1999
- Genet à Chatila ... (Producer)
1998
- Algeria, Life Goes On ... (Production Accountant)
1997
- Reprise ... (Producer)
1996
- Architectures ... (Director)
- Walk the Walk ... (Cinematography)
1995
- At All Costs ... (Producer)
- Life Is Boundless and Full of Dangers ... (Producer)
1994
- Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary ... (Producer)
- More and More ... (Producer)
1993
- Poor George ... (Associate Producer)
- The Wheel ... (Director)
1992
- Brothers in Arms ... (Director)
- La Cabale des oursins as Self - Director of Photography
1991
- Mémoires d'ex ... (Producer)
- Transit ... (Director of Photography)
1990
- Louvre City ... (Cinematography)
1989
- Route One/USA ... (Director of Photography)
- The Seats of the Alcazar ... (Director of Photography)
1988
- The Comedy of Work ... (Director of Photography)
- Opening Essay
1987
- The Media Waltz ... (Cinematography)
- Trilogy for One Man ... (Cinematography)
1985
- A Better Life ... (Director of Photography)
- The Terrible Lovers ... (Director of Photography)
1984
- Barres ... (Director of Photography)
- Bangkok-Bahrain ... (Cinematography)
1983
- La Bête noire ... (Director of Photography)
- Les Minutes d'un faiseur de film ... (Director of Photography)
1982
- Field Diary ... (Production Manager)
1981
- Le Dos au mur ... (Sound)
- My First Breaststroke ... (Cinematography)
1976
- That Kid ... (Cinematography)
1965
- Right of Access ... (Assistant Director)