Henri Safran

Directing

Henri Safran

Born

1932-10-07 (93)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Directing

Credits

15 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Bush Christmas poster
6.0

In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting adventure to get him back.

Bush Christmas

1983

No artwork available
NR

A successful TV personality struggles to juggle the demands of his wife, career, sick mother and mistress.

Third Party

1972

No artwork available
NR

A successful TV personality struggles to juggle the demands of his wife, career, sick mother and mistress.

Third Party

1972

Storm Boy poster
7.0

Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.

Storm Boy

1977

Edge of Power poster
6.5

The worlds of journalism and politics collide in this story about an experienced journalist who desperately needs to scoop a big story in order to revamp his career. Deciding he'll take matters into his own hands, he frames a politician and arranges to be there when the story is leaked to the public. What he doesn't realize is that his own devious behavior is about to get him caught in the middle of a dangerous web of lies and murder.

Edge of Power

1989

Relatives poster
9.0

A family reunion among the squattocracy leads to conflict as various members assert their egos.

Relatives

1985

The Wild Duck poster
7.0

Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitimacy.

The Wild Duck

1984

The Wild Duck poster
7.0

Ibsen's play, adapted to Australia, concerns a couple forced to answer for their daughter's legitimacy.

The Wild Duck

1984

The Rogue Stallion poster
5.3

After her father’s death, Anna Peterson moves with her family from Australia to a run-down ranch in New Zealand, where they face an unwelcoming community. Drawn to horses, Anna becomes captivated by a wild stallion being hunted by a neighboring rancher.

The Rogue Stallion

1990

Norman Loves Rose poster
4.0

A teenage boy falls hopelessly in love with his new sister-in-law. When she gets pregnant, someone raises the question that he might be the father--a notion he does nothing to discourage.

Norman Loves Rose

1982

Norman Loves Rose poster
4.0

A teenage boy falls hopelessly in love with his new sister-in-law. When she gets pregnant, someone raises the question that he might be the father--a notion he does nothing to discourage.

Norman Loves Rose

1982

Norman Loves Rose poster
4.0

A teenage boy falls hopelessly in love with his new sister-in-law. When she gets pregnant, someone raises the question that he might be the father--a notion he does nothing to discourage.

Norman Loves Rose

1982

No artwork available
8.0

Bony, a great-great-grandson of legendary part-Aboriginal detective Napoleon Bonaparte. Albert Harris had been a teenager when he knew Napolean; decades later, as a tribal elder, he had tracked and rescued Napoleon's descendant from the desert, after Bony's parents had tragically perished. 'Uncle' Albert taught the young white boy the ways of the desert. Now in 1990, Albert stands beside the 22-year-old Bony as he is inducted into the Northern Police Force. Bony is sent to Woongala. His first case concerns Angela Hemming, the young American wife of the district's most influential landowner. She claims that a Ned Bowen had attempted to rape her, but that she hadn't pressed charges on the condition he left town. Non of this rings true to Bony and he begins to investigate.

Bony

1990

It’s Too Late Now poster
NR

A downtrodden wife locks her writer husband in his windowless study.

It’s Too Late Now

1970

No artwork available
10.0

A Sydney derelict lies drunk in an alley and is beaten up by thugs. A friend helps him find refuge in a night shelter. As he lies dying he has a vision of himself flying about the room. The man dies and after the cremation of his corpse, his spirit returns to the footpath.

Listen to the Lion

1977