Nina Companéez
Writing
Biography
Nina Companeez (26 August 1937 – 9 April 2015) was a French screenwriter and film director. Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter Jacques Companéez and younger sister of contralto Irène Companeez. She was the mother of actress Valentine Varela. Companeez was a long time collaborator of Michel Deville. She wrote for 29 films and television shows. In April 2015, she died at the age of 77.
Known For
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Champs-Elysées
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Sacrée soirée
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Discorama
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Cadet Rousselle
Follows a young man, Marcel, from his childhood in Combray to his discovery of social life among the upper classes.
À la recherche du temps perdu
French miniseries.
Les Dames de la côte
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
The Horseman on the Roof
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first".
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.
Tender Sharks
The life of the Marquise de Maintenon, who was the wife of the poet Scarron before becoming, under the seal of a secret marriage, the wife of King Louis XIV.
L'Allée du roi
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
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Un ours pas comme les autres
A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.
Soldier Martin
The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.
Un pique-nique chez Osiris
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
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Voici venir l'orage
Lucky Jo and his three friends are little criminals, who try to live from small burglaries. But they never have luck - ever so often something inpredictable happens to Jo and gets one of them arrested. While Jo is in prison once again, they decide they'd better do without him in future. He decides to help them secretly...and unfortunately.
Lucky Jo
Juliette is a young woman who just can't help lying. She lies to her sister, Sophie, to Sophie's fiancé Martin, and to all the men she attracts with her womanly charms. But when she falls for an older man, a 40-year old lawyer, her reputation as a liar precedes her and she cannot convince him that she really does love him…
Adorable Liar
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La poursuite du vent
In 1830s France, a virtuous widow falls for a self-destructive debauchee obsessed with death. Initial resistance gives way to a desperate and cynical romance.