Edmond Séchan

Edmond Séchan

Nascimento : 1919-09-20, Montpellier, Hérault, France

Morte : 2002-06-07

História

Edmond Séchan was a French film and television cinematographer and director.

Perfil

Edmond Séchan

Filmes

L'âge de Monsieur est avancé
Director of Photography
Only on the stage of an empty theater, an author and his wife clash: the scene and the life end up getting confused.
The Seventh Target
Director of Photography
Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma.
Feliz Páscoa
Photo Retouching
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
Os Abutres
Director of Photography
Em plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, na Tunísia, legionários franceses devem transportar barras de ouro para um local seguro. Mas quando eles chegaram, a cidade já havia caído nas mãos dos alemães. Um tiroteio irrompe; quatro homens escapam. Augagneur, um dos sobreviventes, apropria-se dos lingotes e foge...
Femmes
Director of Photography
Helmut is fed up traveling around he world. Coming back from Asia, he decides to stay some time in Alexandra's house, a long time friend. She is living on a beautiful island where she is doing art. From his travels, Helmut brought back some old manuscript about secret rites that he decides to share with Alexandra after restarting a sexual relationship with her
The Party 2
Director of Photography
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
La Boum - No Tempo Dos Namorados
Director of Photography
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Toine
Director
A César award winning short film based on the story from Guy de Maupassant depicts six tales from Normandy, alternately funny, moving and cruel.
Photo-souvenir
Writer
This film in the popular French television series Cinéma 16 stars Jean-Claude Carrière as a surgeon who becomes obsessed with decrypting a series of mysterious Polaroid snapshots
Photo-souvenir
Director
This film in the popular French television series Cinéma 16 stars Jean-Claude Carrière as a surgeon who becomes obsessed with decrypting a series of mysterious Polaroid snapshots
Out of It
Director of Photography
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
Monsieur Papa
Director of Photography
In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.
One-Eyed Men Are Kings
Writer
One-Eyed Men Are Kings [Les... borgnes sont rois] is a 1974 French short film directed by Michel Leroy and Edmond Séchan. In the film, a sad middle-aged man in Paris man and his dog go for a walk, which turns into an ordeal. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
One-Eyed Men Are Kings
Director
One-Eyed Men Are Kings [Les... borgnes sont rois] is a 1974 French short film directed by Michel Leroy and Edmond Séchan. In the film, a sad middle-aged man in Paris man and his dog go for a walk, which turns into an ordeal. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Le Mataf
Director of Photography
When intruders interfere in the robbery of Le Mataf (Michel Constantin) and his gang and a girl is murdered, they are set up for blackmail by an underworld figure who wants them to do a job for him...
O Dia do Chacal
Additional Director of Photography
Um assassino profissional conhecido pelo codinome "Chacal" é contratado para matar Charles de Gaulle, presidente da França. É o início dos anos 60 na França. Os sobreviventes restantes da extinta Legião Estrangeira Francesa, agora numa organização terrorista, a OAS, fizeram repetidas tentativas de matar o presidente francês Charles De Gaulle. O resultado é que ele se tornou o homem mais bem protegido do mundo. Em um ato de desespero eles contratam O Chacal, o codinome do assassino de aluguel que se compromete a matar De Gaulle em troca de meio milhão de dólares. Ele começa então a planejar a morte do famoso presidente francês para o dia 25 de agosto de 1963. Veremos os preparativos do assassino que são tão minuciosos que nos perguntaremos como ele poderia falhar, mesmo quando vemos a tentativa da polícia francesa de achar seu rastro. A situação é historicamente precisa. Houveram muitos desses atentados e o filme segue de perto o enredo do livro. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
La Grande Maffia
Director of Photography
Perched on a Tree
Director of Photography
Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.
As Loucas Aventuras de um Gendarme em Fuga
Second Unit Director
Depois de ser obrigado a se reformar, o Gendarme Cruchot (Louis de Funès) volta a usar o uniforme para ajudar um amigo que sofre de amnésia.
Only the Cool
Director of Photography
Tough and uncompromising late 60s espionage.
For a Distant Love
Writer
A delicious love story has been taken place in Rio.
For a Distant Love
Director
A delicious love story has been taken place in Rio.
Funny Money
Director of Photography
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs.
Fabulosas Aventuras de um Playboy
Director of Photography
A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
As Loucas Aventuras de um Gendarme em Nova York
Director of Photography
Após ser escolhido para representar a França em um congresso internacional, o gendarme Cruchot (Louis de Funès) e sua brigada vão para Nova York.
Skies Above
Cinematography
The crew of an aircraft carrier discovers that it is being pursued by a UFO that turns out to be a radioactive probe from outer space. They appeal to the warring countries of Earth to stop fighting and help it to repel the invaders.
Backfire
Director of Photography
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.
O Homem do Rio
Director of Photography
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.
Love Is a Ball
Director of Photography
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?
The String Bean
Director
A wordless story of an elderly lady who resuscitates a bean plant. Winner of Palme d'or at Cannes.
The Bear
Writer
A mild-mannered zookeeper has to contend with his tyrannical boss and a talking lovesick bear.
The Bear
Director
A mild-mannered zookeeper has to contend with his tyrannical boss and a talking lovesick bear.
Os Libertinos
Director of Photography
Two men spend a night in Paris trying to pick up women.
The Golden Fish
Director
The story of a boy who has a goldfish as a pet, and the family cat has other plans for the goldfish, and a canary protects it by distracting the cat.
No Escape
Director of Photography
In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The old man persecutes Cora for her assiduity until the day when she, in a particularly violent confrontation, knocks him down before the eyes of Gino, an Italian pensioner of whom she is in love. The two accomplices will try to make up the murder.
Tamango
Director of Photography
A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.
Niok, The Orphan Elephant
Writer
Near the region of Angkor Watt, a group of children capture a baby elephant and are just growing attached to it when it is sold to a travelling safari. Pursuing the new owner, a boy manages to steal it back, and the children free it to return to its mother.
Niok, The Orphan Elephant
Director
Near the region of Angkor Watt, a group of children capture a baby elephant and are just growing attached to it when it is sold to a travelling safari. Pursuing the new owner, a boy manages to steal it back, and the children free it to return to its mother.
Mort en fraude
Director of Photography
Arsénio Lupin
Director of Photography
Arsénio Lupin, o multifacetado ladrão cavalheiro, rouba duas obras-primas do Presidente do Conselho. Algum tempo depois, fazendo-se passar por Monsieur Gilles, um viticultor que está se casando com sua única filha, ele pede a vários joalheiros que venham a sua mansão e lhes rouba suas pedras preciosas. As próximas vítimas de André Laroche (a nova identidade de Lupin) serão ninguém menos que um marajá e o próprio Kaiser Wilhelm II.
O Balão Vermelho
Director of Photography
Um garoto encontra nas ruas de Paris um balão vermelho abandonado. Depois de um certo tempo, o balão começa a apresentar uma consciência própria, seguindo o menino por todos os lugares.
Les Possédées
Director of Photography
On a farm ,a handsome man woos three attractive women and sows discord among them.
O Mundo do Silêncio
Director of Photography
Passando por várias localidades, do Mediterrâneo e Oceano Índico, o documentário investiga e captura os mistérios dos habitats aquático, como: barcos naufragados, jardins de corais e a rica fauna com suas cores deslumbrantes. Um retrato que vai de encontro com a brutalidade da exploração submarina e do mundo natural. Codirigido pelo famoso francês oceanógrafo Jacques-Yves Cousteau e o jovem Louis Malle.
La bête noire
Director of Photography
Hunters track a wild boar in the Sologne forests
O cavalo branco
Director of Photography
Garoto faz de tudo para capturar um cavalo branco selvagem. O problema é que vaqueiros têm a mesma intenção, mas o cavalo foge. A esperança do menino é que ele reencontre o animal outra vez. O filme foi rodado nas belas paisagens de Camargue, região pantanosa ao sul da França, onde o rio Rhône se encontra com o mar Mediterrâneo.
La marche
Camera Operator