Henri Colpi was a French film editor and film director

Film director

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Colpi directed the 1961 film Une aussi longue absence

The Long Absence

The Long Absence is a 1961 French film directed by Henri Colpi. It tells the story of Therese , a café owner mourning the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband...

, which is well-known for sharing the Palme d'Or

Palme d'Or

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 at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival

1961 Cannes Film Festival

-Jury:*Jean Giono *Sergei Yutkevich *Pedro Armendáriz *Luigi Chiarini *Claude Mauriac *Edouard Molinaro *Jean Paulhan *Raoul Ploquin...

 with Viridiana

Viridiana

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, which was directed by Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel

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. Une aussi longue absence was written by Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras

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, featured Alida Valli

Alida Valli

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 in a major role, and included music by Georges Delerue

Georges Delerue

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Colpi is also noted as a film editor with about 20 credits, including Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais

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' films Hiroshima mon amour

Hiroshima Mon Amour

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(1961) and L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1963).

In addition to directing, editing, acting, sound recording, and a variety of functions in the post-War years, he was featured in a French television series, Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (The History of French Cinema By Those Who Made It) in 1974, and he continued to work into the 1990s.