Pierre Willemin

Movies

Water and Man
Director
Türkiye
Director of Photography
An overview of Turkey in the Seventies, with some stunning images
Türkiye
Director
An overview of Turkey in the Seventies, with some stunning images
The American
Director of Photography
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.
Crime Thief
Director of Photography
A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.
Is Paris Burning?
Camera Operator
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Camera Operator
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
La Saint Firmin
Director of Photography
The Lovely Month of May
Director of Photography
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.