René Le Hénaff Explained

René Le Hénaff
Birth Date:	24 April 1901
Death Date:	5 January 2005
Occupation:	Film editor, film director

René Le Hénaff (24 April 1901 – 5 January 2005) was a French film editor and director. As a film editor he collaborated with directors Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Géza von Radványi among others. His three films with Carné in the late 1930s — Port of Shadows, Hôtel du Nord, and Le Jour Se Lève — are widely admired examples of poetic realism. He also directed films from 1935 to 1950. Perhaps the best-known is Colonel Chabert (1943), which was a film adaptation of a famous novella by Honoré de Balzac. Le Hénaff retired from filmmaking in 1968.^{[1] [2]}

Selected filmography

Editor

• The Shark (1930)
• Sous les toits de Paris (Under the Roofs of Paris) (1930)
• À Nous la Liberté (1931)
• Madame Makes Her Exit (1932)
• Bastille Day (1933)
• Le Scandal (The Scandal) (1934)
• Samson (1936)
• Le Quai des brumes (Port of Shadows) (1938)
• Hôtel du Nord (1938)
• Le Jour Se Lève (1939)
• Beating Heart (1940)
• The Lover of Borneo (1942)
• Le Quai des brumes (Women Without Names) (1950)
• L'Étrange Désir de monsieur Bard (Strange Desire of Mr. Bard) (1954)
• A Girl Without Boundaries (1955)
• Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) (1958)
• Twelve Hours by the Clock (1959)

Director

• Fort Dolorès (1939)
• The Lover of Borneo (1942)
• Colonel Chabert (1943)
• St. Val's Mystery (1945)
• Christine Gets Married (1946)
• Hoboes in Paradise (1946)
• The Husbands of Leontine (1947)
• Monsieur de Falindor (1947)
• Scandal (1948)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Philippe . Pelletier . fr . René Le Hénaff . Les Gens du Cinéma . March 3, 2005 .
2. News: Marcel Carne, Film Director, Dies at 90 . Alan . Riding . Alan Riding . November 1, 1996 . The New York Times .