Alain Levent

Películas

Nadia and Sarra
Cinematography
Nadia is a 45 year old female professor at the University of Tunis. She is married and has a daughter of 18, Sarra. For some time, Nadia has problems in her marriage also symptoms of menopause are inseparable. The physical and psychological state deteriorates inexorably Nadia.
Silence of the Sea
Director of Photography
In a small town in the West of France, during the German Occupation, a room is requisitioned by a Wehrmacht captain, Werner von Ebrennac. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young Jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by her grandfather. Quite upset, the two "hosts" decide to resist the occupier by never speaking a word to him. Now Werner is a lover of France and its culture, and he tries to persuade them that a rapprochement between Germany and France would be beneficial for the two nations. Quite unexpectedly Jeanne, little by little, falls in love with Werner. At the same time, the Francophile officer loses his illusions, realizing at last that what Nazi Germany actually wants is to thrall France and to stifle its culture...
Roues libres
Cinematography
At 6 p.m., in an African capital, two handicapped people approach a parked taxi. They rob the driver and take him hostage. Begins for the disabled, a crazy night of robberies, violence, confusion and dreams.
The Mirage
Director of Photography
An old woman who is unaware that she is near death, falls in love with her son’s young American tutor.
The Madonna and the Dragon
Director of Photography
Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.
Un coupable
Director of Photography
The young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration. The situation escalates, a cop is injured and witnesses designate Ali, of Arabic origin, as guilty.
L'homme qui n'était pas là
Director of Photography
Charles Elaine, a famous actor, becomes the target of a man who wants to apply to him a theory according to which you can make someone crazy by manipulating him. Rella, a beautiful young woman, is designed to drive Charles crazy.
Un métier de seigneur
Director of Photography
Faubourg St Martin
Director of Photography
Imagine a slightly dilapidated three star hotel in the tenth arrondissement run by a very distinguished lady with moral fibre and panache, Mrs. Coppercage. Alongside tourists visiting Paris, Mrs. Coppercage rents three rooms to three women at a monthly rate. Each woman is marked by life, yet they go on as best they can, never closing their eyes to the world around them, or to the men who impatiently await them. Faubourg Saint Martin opens as a love story and ends like a song as shots ring out and punctuate the chorus.
Brantôme 81: Vie de dames galantes
Cinematography
Five bourgeoisie women. Five men - husbands or companions - who, in different fields, possess a certain power. Characters who live in embassy lounges, frequent palaces and large houses, travel in expensive cars and yachts, eager for pleasure, guided by ambition.
The Bit Between the Teeth
Director of Photography
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....
Dos inquilinos
Director of Photography
Con el fin de escribir tranquilamente un guión cinematográfico, un hombre alquila un apartamento. Pero ya el primer día es invitado a una reunión de vecinos.
The Question
Director of Photography
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Drácula, Padre e Hijo
Director of Photography
Drácula y su hijo Ferdinand se mudan a la gran ciudad. El padre sobrevive como vampiro que es; en cambio, su hijo se enamora y decide que no quiere ser vampiro nunca más.
The Acrobat
Director of Photography
Leon who works as a bathhouse attendant discovers a passion for the tango that will change his life. He falls in love with Fumée, a young and pretty prostitute who becomes his partner in tango contests.
The Irony of Chance
Director of Photography
Naked Sex
Director of Photography
After a disappointment in love, Alain tells his mistress how he gradually sank into libertinage: from his beginnings with a teacher in art history, then with a supermarket saleswoman, until his discovery libertine parties.
Far West
Director of Photography
This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together and build an old-western-style town in the middle of an abandoned factory, battling local bureaucracies in the process.
The Bar at the Crossing
Writer
In 1916, Vincent van Horst leaves Europe to return to his Canadian homeland. There, he seeks his former love, Maria... but the lady's pride is hurt and she refuses to see him. Vincent then falls for a younger woman, Annie.
The Bar at the Crossing
Director
In 1916, Vincent van Horst leaves Europe to return to his Canadian homeland. There, he seeks his former love, Maria... but the lady's pride is hurt and she refuses to see him. Vincent then falls for a younger woman, Annie.
Franz
Director of Photography
En una ciudad costera francesa, en una pensión para los funcionarios públicos que se recuperan de la cirugía y enfermedades, la vida de los seis residentes masculinos va cambiar dramáticamente cuando llegan dos mujeres: Catherine, alegre, liberada sexualmente, dispuesta a besar, bailar y dormir con hombres, y Leonie, reservada, conservadora y formal. Leonie se siente atraída por León, un belga que era un mercenario en Katanga en 1964, herido y también con secuelas psicológicas. Los otros hombres continuamente bromean sobre León, algunos de ellos cruelmente. A León, su madre le trae una horrible angustia emocional al igual que sus recuerdos de la guerra. (FILMAFFINITY)
Death of a Jew
Director of Photography
A confrontation between two enemies. One is a young, captured Israeli agent and the other an older Arab inspector who tries to get the agent talk by making him regain his desire to live.
My Uncle Benjamin
Director of Photography
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason he resists the efforts of his sister Bettine to marry him off to Arabelle, the daughter of old Dr. Minxit. Benjamin does agree to go and meet the girl. But that evening his sister finds him at the inn together with Manette, who is arrested by her father. So she decides to go with Benjamin herself. But as result of an incident with the fat Marquis puts paid to the expedition. Benjamin is subjected by the Marquis to a humiliating practical joke. Benjamin is determined to got his revenge. He succeeds thanks to the gorgeous Vicomte Hector de Pont-Cassé, who also helps Manette with her problems against her father. But Benjamin is now arrested by the Marquis...
Les gauloises bleues
Director of Photography
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.
Amor y rabia
Director of Photography
Cinco directores ofrecen sendas historias en las que se entremezclan el amor y la rabia.
L'Amour fou
Director of Photography
Follows the dissolution of the marriage between Claire, an actress and Sebastien, her director.
Bonnot's Gang
Director of Photography
The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.
Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another
Director of Photography
Speaking as scenes from Anatahan are shown, for which he directed, photographed, wrote, and provided voiceover narration, film director Josef von Sternberg takes the viewer on a fantastic filmmaking journey in this presentation of Cinéastes de notre temps: Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another.
Lamiel
Director of Photography
Lamiel (Anna Karina) is a poor orphan girl who climbs her way to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor (Michel Bouquet) lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Lamiel finds love with a young thief who steals into her bedroom after her marriage to a penniless count (Jean-Clause Brialy), and the two experience a romantic rendezvous of forbidden love after Lamiel goes from being a poor peasant woman to living a life of comparative luxury.
Objective: 500 Million
Director of Photography
Reichau, un excapitán del ejército, regresa a Francia luego de pasar tres años en prisión por ser parte de un grupo opositor a la guerra de Argelia. Ya no cree en los valores que defiende su país y, por eso, decide formar parte de un plan diseñado por Pierre, un expiloto, que consiste en robar 500 millones durante un vuelo de París a Bordeaux.
La religiosa
Director of Photography
En el siglo XVIII Suzanne Simonin -Anna Karina- es obligada por su familia a entrar en el convento de Longchamp, donde la superiora De Moni -Micheline Presle- la convence para que tome los hábitos, pero a la muerte de ésta debe soportar la férrea disciplina de la Madre Sainte-Christine -Francine Bergé- y su afirmación de que está endemoniada.
A Bullet Through the Heart
Director of Photography
A Bullet Through the Heart (French: Une balle au cœur, Greek: Μια σφαίρα στην καρδιά) is a 1966 Franco-Greek film directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet. Francesco, a young Sicilian aristocrat, scars an aging gangster who has set out to take away his property. The gangster vows to obtain vengeance, and Francesco is forced to flee across Greece with his girl friend, pursued by his antagonist's vicious henchmen.
The Queen of Spades
Director of Photography
A gambling countess comes by a secret three card combination that wins her a fortune, but she is allowed to use it only once and not gamble again. She passes on the info twice, and the recipients both die violently. She is warned that if she passes it on again, she too will die. Many years later, a young soldier discovers that the countess has the secret, and he resolves to get it out of her.
París visto por...
Director of Photography
Película concebida por el productor Barbet Schroeder y compuesta por seis cortometrajes dirigidos por algunos de los mejores directores franceses de la época. Los títulos corresponden a barrios parisinos. Godard rueda una comedia romántica en Montparnasse, Rouch sigue a una chica por la Gare du Nord, Claude Chabrol muestra una infeliz familia burguesa en La Muette, Jean-Daniel Pollet cuenta una desternillante historia sobre el encuentro de un hombre tímido con una prostituta en la Rue Sant-Denis, Jean Douchet narra la historia de unas chicas americanas que se van de paseo con unos franceses por Saint-Germain-des-Prés, y Éric Rohmer sigue a un vendedor que se enzarza en una pelea con un borracho en la Place de l'Étoile y teme haberlo matado.
Place de l'Étoile
Director of Photography
Un vendedor de camisas mata accidentalmente a un matón callejero durante una pelea y vaga por la ciudad mientras se lamenta por lo que debe hacer al respecto.
El asesino de Dusseldorf
Director of Photography
En 1930 la población de Düsseldorf se ve aterrorizada por los crímenes de un asesino que ataca a las mujeres durante la noche. Nadie sospecha de Peter Kurten, obrero taciturno, tranquilo e inquilino modelo, cuya presencia, por el contrario, tranquiliza a su patrona. Cada noche, sin embargo, sale elegantemente vestido con el único fin de ir a aplaudir en una sala de fiestas de la periferia a una joven cantante llamada Anna, a quien ni siquiera se atreve a acercarse. Cuando vuelve a su casa es cuando asesina a su víctimas presas de pánico. El comisario Monberg, encargado de la investigación, esperaba deternerle después del asesinato de una joven provinciana, Paula, cuya amiga, Rosa, aportaba un precioso testimonio.
Rue Saint-Denis
Director of Photography
Un lavaplatos solitario contrata a una prostituta y la lleva a su apartamento sórdido para animar su vida aburrida por una noche.
Cover Girls
Director of Photography
La historia de cuatro modelos, contada por el fotógrafo que las lanzó.
Bassae
Director of Photography
"I was interested by the fact that some old guy, after the Parthenon’s glamour, devoted himself in a much smaller temple, where there was no white marble, no nothing. All Greek temples are dedicated to Apollo etc, and this particular one was not dedicated to anyone and is in a place where there never was a city nearby, in a kind of wasteland, in a ditch. But, just by going up a bit –you are in the centre of Peloponissos- on a clear day, you can see the sea on both your left and right. I went back there, at least six, seven or eight times, as if I wanted to think or find myself. So, at the temple in Bassae, I made a short 10 minute film and I was lucky enough to encounter two days of clouds and mist between the columns." —ecofilms.gr (Jean-Daniel Pollet, Tours d’horizons, Editions de l’oeil 2005)
El signo de Leo
First Assistant Camera
Pierre Wesselrin es un músico bohemio y sin dinero que vive en París. Un día, recibe un telegrama en el que se le notifica la muerte de su acaudalada tía. Como ella sólo tenía dos parientes vivos, Pierre piensa que él recibirá, al menos, parte de la herencia, así que celebra una fiesta para celebrar la noticia con sus amigos.
Cleo de 5 a 7
Director of Photography
Cleo, una joven cantante, espera impaciente los resultados de un examen médico. Cuando una adivina que lee las cartas le revela que tiene cáncer y que puede morir, su inquietud aumenta. Tratando de ocupar su tiempo a la espera de los resultados, Cleo conoce a un joven soldado, a punto de partir para hacer el servicio militar en Argelia, al que confía su temor a la muerte.
Los siete pecados capitales
Camera Operator
Película dividida en siete cortos, cada uno de ellos protagonizado por un pecado capital.
The Joker
First Assistant Camera
A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their affair is doomed by her taste for luxury and his dislike of her coolness.
Los cuatrocientos golpes
Assistant Camera
A sus doce años, Antoine Doinel se ve obligado no sólo a convivir con los problemas conyugales que sus padres no se atreven a afrontar, sino también a soportar las exigencias de un severo profesor. Un día, asustado porque no ha cumplido un castigo que el maestro le ha impuesto, decide hacer novillos con su amigo René. Inesperadamente, ve a su madre en compañía de otro hombre; la culpa y el miedo lo arrastran a una serie de mentiras y riñas que poco a poco van calando en su ánimo. Deseando dejar atrás todos sus problemas, sueña con conocer el mar y traza con René un plan para escaparse.
Verónica y su burro
Assistant Camera
Una tutora, contratada por la madre de un niño vago e indisciplinado, responde a las preguntas aparentemente sencillas del mismo.