It has marked the history of French cinema and television. The director and scriptwriter Nina Companeez died Thursday, 9 in Paris at the age of 77 of complications from cancer. In a statement, France Télévisions has paid tribute to a “outstanding personality” “has always been able to combine outstanding achievements in demand for quality and the gathering of the wider public” .
Nina Companeez, whose real name Nina Kompaneyetz Helen, was born August 26, 1937 in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine). She began her career in 1956 as an editor. Three years later, she began with Michel Delville a collaboration that will last ten years, the time of signing the scenarios Tonight or never (1961), Benjamin or the memoirs of a virgin (1967), The Bear and Doll (1970) with Brigitte Bardot or Raphael or debauched (1971).
In 1972, she directed her first feature film, Faustine and the Beautiful Summer . The following year, she continues with The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot , where she plays Brigitte Bardot in her latest film role and Francis Huster who the shot Lightning is immediate. “Nina Companeez was the first great love of my life, it made me a man. Nina had a daughter, Valentine, I considered my own. Their home was my Bougival Cherry Orchard to me. I always love “, recently told the actor Paris Match .
But if Nina Companeez has made a name in the cinema, it is mainly the TV it is illustrated. It is to her that we owe the famous TV movies The Ladies of the coast (1979), The King’s Alley (1995) and A Search of Lost Time (2011). Frédérique Bredin, president of the National Film Centre (CNC), with these great sagas, Nina Companeez “had transmitted his passion for history through his work.”
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