Nina Companéez

Writing

Nina Companéez

Born 1937-08-26 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

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.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Horseman on the Roof poster
6.5

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

The Horseman on the Roof

1995

Tender Sharks poster
9.0

While an admiral's son is hunted by secret agents, his sister plays his part on a warship.

Tender Sharks

1967

Lucky Jo poster
6.7

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.

Lucky Jo

1964

Raphael or the Debauched One poster
6.1

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.

Raphael or the Debauched One

1971

The Bear and the Doll poster
6.2

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.

The Bear and the Doll

1970

The Diary of an Innocent Boy poster
6.0

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".

The Diary of an Innocent Boy

1968

The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen poster
5.2

A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."

The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen

1966

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer poster
5.9

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...

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

1972

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer poster
5.9

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...

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

1972

La muse et la madone poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La muse et la madone

1979

La muse et la madone poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La muse et la madone

1979

Adorable Liar poster
5.8

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…

Adorable Liar

1962

Tom et Julie poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tom et Julie

1977

L'allée du Roi (Version courte) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'allée du Roi (Version courte)

1996

The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot poster
4.9

Colinot is a young, happy man, until the day three highway robbers abduct his fiancée. The search leads him to meet so many young, lovely women – that when he finally encounters his fiancée, he's no longer sure he loves her.

The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot

1973

The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot poster
4.9

Colinot is a young, happy man, until the day three highway robbers abduct his fiancée. The search leads him to meet so many young, lovely women – that when he finally encounters his fiancée, he's no longer sure he loves her.

The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot

1973

Because, Because of a Woman poster
5.1

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.

Because, Because of a Woman

1963

La Chanson du maçon poster
10.0

Three eccentric old homosexual men encourage a love affair between their snobbish young landlady and a mason.

La Chanson du maçon

2002

La Chanson du maçon poster
10.0

Three eccentric old homosexual men encourage a love affair between their snobbish young landlady and a mason.

La Chanson du maçon

2002

Un pique-nique chez Osiris poster
6.0

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.

Un pique-nique chez Osiris

2001

Girl's Apartment poster
5.6

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.

Girl's Apartment

1963

Je t’aime quand même poster
9.0

Ramon meets Betty after 25 years in Toulouse.

Je t’aime quand même

1994

The Little Misses poster
NR

Four young girls' love of boys put their newly opened all-services company in peril.

The Little Misses

1964

Le Général du roi poster
2.3

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.

Le Général du roi

2014