“The Ladies of the coast”, “The Alley of the King”, “The Great Caper” … his ambitious and elegant historical sagas were the heyday of the public television. . The director Nina Companeez has died at the age of 77 years
In spring 2010, Nina Companeez finally realized his dream of turning an adaptation of In Search of Lost Time , the book that had him “learned so much” on herself and others. On the terrace of the Grand Hotel de Cabourg, which was defined as a “Camera artisan” took immense pleasure to redo the catch. His intense gaze myopic, hidden behind huge glasses sparkled with admiration for the young actresses in bloom laughing on the beach in swimwear Belle Epoque. Echoing heroines Ladies of the coast , the soap opera that had made known to the public in 1979.
The director, who has just died Thursday, April 9 2015 to 77 years, admitted another favorite work: Gone with the Wind , which she missed no replay. The Adventures of Scarlett O’Hara, “these political storms that come seal the individual fates and reveal the characters’ , reminded him of the dramatic destiny of his own family. She had waited in 2007 before recall his story in Here comes the storm . His grandparents, bourgeois Jews of Moscow, had fled Bolshevik Russia in 1919 and took refuge in Berlin. In 1936, this time to escape Nazi persecution, the family had won Paris, where Nina was born a year later.
In occupied France, the little girl was converted to the Orthodox religion to escape raids before being hidden in the country for a year. “I have always considered a positive, cheerful person. But in my fiction, I always come back, explicitly or not, the ups and downs of history, in the days of my childhood, “, she told us in December 2013, while France 3 broadcast his ultimate telefilm King General , the story of a passionate love during the Vendée wars. “When we went through such trials, there are still traces , it recognized again. I can not believe in much. But paradoxically, it gives strength and wisdom. “ His motto? “We survived Stalin and Hitler, we will not let piss! “
Spiesser Jacques and Isabelle Adjani, Faustine and the beautiful summer . DR
His passion stories, she also owed to his father, Jacques turned engineer scriptwriter Jean Renoir ( The Lower Depths ) and Jacques Becker ( Golden Helmet ). At his death, Nina took over to write the dialogues removed and delicate comedy by Michel Deville ( Adorable liar , Lucky Jo …). She started directing in 1971 with Faustine and the beautiful summer , a minor flirtation begins when a certain Isabelle Adjani, then with very good history and very joyful Colinot kit-shirt, the latest film (also disappointing) Brigitte Bardot.
It’s on the small screen it will find its way through ambitious and elegant historical sagas, produced by his faithful Mag Bodard accomplice. The Great Caper , the aristocratic emigrants after the French Revolution, or The King’s Alley , biopic of Madame de Maintenon, will make the rich hearings on public television. His fiction have in common: the heroines who manage to overcome the most painful trials and affirm their desire for emancipation. Characters who owe much to the maternal grandmother of the director, Tamara. In his apartment full of memories, where she enjoyed entertaining journalists for unconstrained schedule interviews over tea (Russian, of course), Nina Companeez was inexhaustible on that ancestor “mad culture, exalted, to whom Life had offered all the promises, but the company wanted to lock in a straitjacket “. A great romantic figure, in the image of his films.
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