Nina Companeez (26 August 1937 – 9 April 2015) was a French

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

and

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

. Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter Jacques Companéez and younger sister of

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Irène Companeez. She was the mother of actress Valentine Varela. Companeez was a long time collaborator of

Michel Deville Michel Deville (born 13 April 1931) is a French film director and screenwriter. Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and in ...

.Françoise Audé ''Ciné-modèles cinéma d'elles.: Situations de femmes dans le cinéma'' 1981 Page 77 " ichel Deville.. Il ne se lance alors pas seul dans l'aventure : avec lui, une scénariste-dialoguiste brillante, Nina Companeez. Elle est la fille de Jacques Companeez qui fut le scénariste de Jacques Becker. Elle est, en outre, monteuse." She wrote for 29 films and television shows. In April 2015, she died at the age of 77.

Selected filmography

Writer

* '' Tonight or Never'' (1961) * '' Adorable Liar'' (1962) * ''

Because, Because of a Woman ''Because, Because of a Woman'' (french: À cause, à cause d'une femme) is a 1963 French comedy film directed by Michel Deville. Cast * Jacques Charrier as Remy Fertet * Mylène Demongeot as Lisette * Juliette Mayniel as Chloé * Marie Lafor ...

'' (1963) * ''

Girl's Apartment ''Girl's Apartment'' (french: L'Appartement des filles) is a 1963 comedy film directed by Michel Deville and starring Mylène Demongeot, Sylva Koscina and Renate Ewert.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.138 It was a co-production between France, Italy a ...

'' (1963) * ''

Lucky Jo Lucky may refer to: *An adjective of luck Lucky may also refer to: Film and television * ''Lucky: No Time for Love'', a 2005 Hindi-language romance starring Salman Khan, Sneha Ullal, and Mithun Chakraborty * ''Lucky'', a 2005 short film by Avie ...

'' (1964) * ''

Martin Soldat ''Kiss Me General'' (original title: ''Martin Soldat'') is a 1966 French comedy film directed by Michel Deville and starring Robert Hirsch, Véronique Vendell, Walter Rilla, Marlène Jobert and Anthony Sharp. An actor disguises himself as a so ...

'' (1966) * ''

The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen ''The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen'' (french: On a volé la Joconde) is a 1966 French comedy film directed by Michel Deville. Cast * George Chakiris as Vincent * Marina Vlady as Nicole * Margaret Lee as Marie-Christine Lemercier * Paul Frankeur a ...

'' (1966) * ''

Zärtliche Haie ''Zärtliche Haie'' (french: Tendres requins) is a 1967 German-French comedy film directed by Michel Deville and starring Anna Karina. Cast * Anna Karina as Elena / Costa * Mario Adorf as Spion SB 3 * Gérard Barray as Gregory * Fritz Tillmann ...

'' (1967) * ''

Benjamin Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...

'' (1968) * ''

Bye bye, Barbara ''Bye bye, Barbara'' is a 1969 French comedy film directed by Michel Deville. Cast * Ewa Swann as Paula * Philippe Avron as Jerôme Thomas * Bruno Cremer as Hugo Michelli * Alexandra Stewart as Eve Michelli * Michel Duchaussoy as Dimitri * ...

'' (1969) * ''

The Bear and the Doll ''The Bear and the Doll'' (french: L'Ours et la Poupée) is a 1970 French romantic comedy film directed by Michel Deville, starring Brigitte Bardot and Jean-Pierre Cassel. Premise Felicia, a high-spirited woman, crashes her car into that of a Ga ...

'' (1970) * ''

Raphael, or The Debauched One ''Raphael, or The Debauched One'' (french: Raphaël ou le Débauché) is a 1971 French historical drama film directed by Michel Deville. It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Maurice Ronet - Raphaël de Lorris * Françoise F ...

'' (1971) * ''

Faustine et le Bel Été ''Faustine et le Bel Été'' is a 1972 French romantic drama film directed by Nina Companéez. It was screened out of competition at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Faustine, a romantic teenager, decides to spend her summer in the countrysi ...

'' (1972) * '' L'histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot trousse-chemise'' (1973) * ''

The Horseman on the Roof ''The Horseman on the Roof'' (french: Le hussard sur le toit) is a 1995 French film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez. Based on the 1951 French novel '' Le hussard sur le toit'' by Jean Giono, the ...

'' (1995) * ''

À la recherche du temps perdu ''In Search of Lost Time'' (french: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'', and sometimes referred to in French as ''La Recherche'' (''The Search''), is a novel in seven volumes by French ...

'' (2011)

Actor

* ''

'' (1968) - Une invitée (uncredited) * ''

'' (1969) - La directrice de l'agence de call-girls (uncredited) * ''

'' (1970) - Dame en blanche (uncredited)

References

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* 1937 births 2015 deaths Deaths from cancer in France French people of Russian-Jewish descent French film directors French women film directors French women screenwriters French screenwriters People from Boulogne-Billancourt {{France-film-director-stub