Pierre Koralnik

Directing

Pierre Koralnik

Born

1938-12-22 (87)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

22 titles

Pierre Koralnik (born 22 December 1938) is a French film director and screenwriter. He studied cinema in Paris at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques, became Robert Enrico's assistant, and then worked for television channels in Switzerland (SRF, TSR) and France (ORTF). He collaborated on programs such as Continents sans visa and Cinq colonnes à la une, directed documentaries and artist portraits, as well as numerous television films, including Anna (1967), a highly acclaimed musical comedy starring Serge Gainsbourg and Anna Karina. He also co-wrote Jean-Louis Roy's L'inconnu de Shandigor (1966), directed La Sainte Famille (La Chasse au diable) in 1972, and directed several pla…

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Cannabis poster
4.4

Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. Once in Orly Airport he gets seriously wounded by the men of French drug kingpin Henri Emery. He manages to escape them though and takes refuge at Jane's. Passion sets in between the killer and the young lady. As of then, sex will be intertwined with blood and death. For better or worse...

Cannabis

1970

Horror!!! poster
1.0

Horror stars are interviewed about their craft and films. Included on Severin Films' "Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Vol. 1" collection.

Horror!!!

1964

The Unknown Man of Shandigor poster
5.9

Crazed scientist Herbert Von Krantz has invented a device to sterilize all nuclear weapons -- and a mad herd of rival spies are desperate to get their hands on the device, including a sect of bald, turtleneck-wearing assassins.

The Unknown Man of Shandigor

1967

Anna poster
5.8

Anna is working at a Parisian advertising agency. The director has fallen in love with a young woman he only knows through a photograph — of Anna.

Anna

1968

No artwork available
10.0

In 1937, the young French engineer Jo Dupuche landed a job in Ecuador, with the promise of a better life. While he stops on a Caribbean island, he discovers that the mine where he was hired has gone bankrupt and finds himself penniless. Trapped with his wife in the tropics, the couple must cope. While his wife finds work thanks to white settlers, Jo is housed in a ghetto where he forms a romantic relationship with a young prostitute. Shot on 35mm in Cuba at the end of the 1980s with all the constraints inherent to the country, this TV film paints an uncompromising picture of colonialism in line with the eponymous novel by Simenon (1934).

Quartier nègre

1990

Françoise et Udo... poster
6.0

This is the story of a meeting between a man and a woman. In a train, an Austrian singer and a French teacher exchange on their past, their character, and fall in love. Their journey is made in music. The opportunity to evoke Georges Brassens, Annabel Buffet, Eugène Ionesco…

Françoise et Udo...

1968

James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village poster
NR

James Baldwin, a stranger in a Swiss village in 1962, reflects on ordinary and universal racism.

James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

1962

Salomé poster
9.0

Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. According to the New Testament, the daughter of Herodias demanded and received the head of John the Baptist. This is a choreographed version of the play by Oscar Wilde.

Salomé

1969

Rapt ou la Séparation des races poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rapt ou la Séparation des races

1984

La Reine de Saba poster
10.0

Inspired by the biblical legend, this movie retells the meeting of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon and the fight of the most beautiful pagan queen to awaken, in the ruler of Israel's heart, a love other than that of heavenly Jerusalem. Having come from her country (located in present-day Yemen) with a caravan and gifts to meet this king known for his wisdom and glory, the queen Balkis embarks on a seduction campaign that soon succeeds. However, she obscurely feels that she will have no real power over him until she breaks down this obstacle between them: his faith.

La Reine de Saba

1975

No artwork available
10.0

A woman of powerful character and a priest create a religious sect, through a nun who practices automatic writing dictated by the Virgin Mary.

The Holy Family

1973

No artwork available
NR

Pierre Koralnik's documentary about American sculptor Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson - My Life as a Collage

1980

No artwork available
NR

451 AD. Defeated by the Romans, a group of Barbarians led by their prince make a desperate attempt at losing their pursuers by going deeper and deeper into the Alpine forests.

Le prince barbare

1988

Enquête sur une parole donnée : La lettre perdue poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Enquête sur une parole donnée : La lettre perdue

1985

Enquête sur une parole donnée : La lettre perdue poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Enquête sur une parole donnée : La lettre perdue

1985

Happy End! poster
NR

The imaginary journey of a little man, a little naïve, a little dreamer, who is thrown by chance into the mythology of the cinema, plunges the viewer into a poetic universe where reality and cinematic wonder create a constant equivocation between the wings and the stage.

Happy End!

1964

Bacon, peintre anglais poster
NR

Pierre Koralnik filmed Francis Bacon in his studio overrun with friends. Under the influence of alcohol, the painter comes and goes and, prolific, confides. In a sequence shot, the camera does not let go. A landmark document.

Bacon, peintre anglais

1964

Bacon, peintre anglais poster
NR

Pierre Koralnik filmed Francis Bacon in his studio overrun with friends. Under the influence of alcohol, the painter comes and goes and, prolific, confides. In a sequence shot, the camera does not let go. A landmark document.

Bacon, peintre anglais

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rumeur

1978