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

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

and

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. Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter

Jacques Companéez Jacques Companeez (Russian: Яков Компанеец, ''Yaakov Kompanéyets'', born in Nizhyn, Russian Empire 1906–1956) was a Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter in Paris. He arrived in Paris in 1936 after studying in Berlin, and wrote ...

and younger sister of

contralto A contralto () is a classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range is the lowest of their voice type, voice types. The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare, similar to the mezzo-soprano, and almost identical to ...

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

Michel Deville Michel Deville (13 April 1931 – 16 February 2023) was 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 o ...

.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 scripts 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 ''Adorable Liar'' () is a 1962 French romantic comedy film directed by Michel Deville, starring Marina Vlady, Macha Méril and Jean-Marc Bory.''The A to Z of French Cinema'' p.138 h Premise Juliette and Sophie are sisters: Juliette lies out ...

'' (1962) * '' Because, Because of a Woman'' (1963) * '' Girl's Apartment'' (1963) * ''

Lucky Jo ''Lucky Jo'' is a 1964 French crime film directed by Michel Deville and starring Eddie Constantine, Pierre Brasseur and Christiane Minazzoli.Parish p.64 Cast * Eddie Constantine as Christopher "Lucky Jo" Jowett * Pierre Brasseur as Le commissai ...

'' (1964) * '' Martin Soldat'' (1966) * ''

The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen ''The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen'' () is a 1966 French comedy film directed by Michel Deville. Plot In Paris around 1911, a handsome young Italian called Vincent arrives looking for work as a picture framer. He is taken on by Lemercier, whose ...

'' (1966) * '' Zärtliche Haie'' (1967) * ''

Benjamin Benjamin ( ''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 younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twe ...

'' (1968) * '' Bye bye, Barbara'' (1969) * ''

The Bear and the Doll ''The Bear and the Doll'' () is a 1970 French romantic comedy film directed by Michel Deville, starring Brigitte Bardot and Jean-Pierre Cassel. Taking place over 24 hours, a rich, beautiful and wilful woman from Paris is determined to seduce a ...

'' (1970) * ''

Raphael, or The Debauched One ''Raphael, or The Debauched One'' () 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 Fabian - Aurore * Jean Vilar - ...

'' (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 country ...

'' (1972) * ''

L'histoire très bonne et très joyeuse de Colinot trousse-chemise ''L'Histoire'' is a monthly mainstream French magazine dedicated to historical studies, recognized by peers as the most important historical popular magazine (as opposed to specific university journals or less scientific popular historical magaz ...

'' (1973) * ''

The Horseman on the Roof ''The Horseman on the Roof'' () 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 film follows the adventures ...

'' (1995) * ''

À la recherche du temps perdu ''In Search of Lost Time'' (), 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 author Marcel Proust. This early twen ...

'' (2011)

Actor

* ''

'' (1968) - Une invitée (uncredited) * '' Bye bye, Barbara'' (1969) - La directrice de l'agence de call-girls (uncredited) * ''

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

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* 1937 births 2015 deaths Deaths from cancer in France French people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent French film directors French women film directors French women screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters Writers from Boulogne-Billancourt 20th-century French women writers 21st-century French screenwriters 21st-century French women writers {{France-film-director-stub