Nina Companeez (26 August 1937 – 9 April 2015) was a French screenwriter and film director. Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter Jacques Companéez and younger sister of contralto Irène Companeez. She was the mother of actress Valentine Varela. Companeez was a long time collaborator of Michel Deville. She wrote for 29 films and television shows. In April 2015, she died at the age of 77.
A chance meeting with an alluring stranger leads a sports journalist down a twisted path of deception.
Release Date1969-03-11
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Charactersd Director of the call girl agency (uncredited)
Vote Count2
A quiet cellist living in the countryside has his life disrupted when he accidentally bumps into a wealthy, temperamental woman in a Rolls-Royce. Angered by his indifference to her charm, she attempts to seduce him, but he resists her attempts to invade his peaceful life.
Release Date1970-02-04
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Charactersd
Vote Count16
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first".
Release Date1968-01-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Une invitée
Vote Count35
Release Date1987-09-02
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Release Date1982-01-16
Charactersd Self
Episode Count2
Vote Count7
Release Date1959-02-04
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Release Date1971-11-04
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005.
Release Date2005-10-01
Charactersd Self
A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their affair is doomed by her taste for luxury and his dislike of her coolness.
Release Date1961-01-20
DepartmentEditing
JobAssistant Editor
Vote Count15
Juliette is a young woman who just can't help lying. She lies to her sister, Sophie, to Sophie's fiancé Martin, and to all the men she attracts with her womanly charms. But when she falls for an older man, a 40-year old lawyer, her reputation as a liar precedes her and she cannot convince him that she really does love him…
Release Date1962-02-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count10
While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.
Release Date1967-03-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Lucky Jo and his three friends are little criminals, who try to live from small burglaries. But they never have luck - ever so often something inpredictable happens to Jo and gets one of them arrested. While Jo is in prison once again, they decide they'd better do without him in future. He decides to help them secretly...and unfortunately.
Release Date1964-11-12
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count19
The head of the family is a beautiful and independent woman who lives with her mother Isa, grand-mother Liane, aunt Teresa. The tribe spends holidays in the countryside. Everyone carries his issues, despite the pleasure to be together.
Release Date1982-02-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
Release Date1973-10-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
Follows a young man, Marcel, from his childhood in Combray to his discovery of social life among the upper classes.
Release Date2011-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count6
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Release Date1995-09-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count149
Release Date1998-11-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count1
In 1830s France, a virtuous widow falls for a self-destructive debauchee obsessed with death. Initial resistance gives way to a desperate and cynical romance.
Release Date1971-04-02
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count22
The life of the Marquise de Maintenon, who was the wife of the poet Scarron before becoming, under the seal of a secret marriage, the wife of King Louis XIV.
Release Date1996-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count8
French miniseries.
Release Date1979-12-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count4
Release Date2007-11-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
Release Date1989-01-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."
Release Date1966-02-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count10
Release Date1978-03-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...
Release Date1972-01-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count15
Tibere is a small-time hood who tries to get one of three airline hostesses to help him in his gold-smuggling operation in this light comedy. One woman is a snob, the second is adventurous, and Melanie is sentimental about love.
Release Date1963-12-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.
Release Date1966-09-28
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count1
Constance, an aristocrat from the Vendée, and François-Denis, a navy officer 10 years her senior, fall madly in love. But, during a hunting party, Constance has a terrible fall. Left crippled, she breaks off their relationship. Years go by. Whilst war wages on Constance and François-Denis' paths cross once more.
Release Date2014-01-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
A theatrical director's relationship with his aspiring actress girlfriend begins to unravel when she fails to land a role in his play.
Release Date1961-09-29
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count6
Imitating stars from French pop music is the only leisure activity of a village girl. She decides to go to Paris with her mother in order to try her luck in show business industry.
Release Date1977-03-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Ramon meets Betty after 25 years in Toulouse.
Release Date1994-02-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.
Release Date2001-05-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is addressed by one of his past flirts. As revenge, she denounces him later to the police as the murderer of her fiance who was found dead the same morning. With the help of his mistresses and some new ones he makes on the road, the young man goes in search of the man he thinks is the killer, then his blond consort with whom he fell in love at the first sight the evening before.
Release Date1963-08-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count14
Four young girls' love of boys put their newly opened all-services company in peril.
Release Date1964-07-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Three eccentric old homosexual men encourage a love affair between their snobbish young landlady and a mason.
Release Date2002-06-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
