René Le Hénaff

René Le Hénaff (24 April 1901 – 5 January 2005) was a French film editor and director. As a film editor he collaborated with directors Marcel Carné, René Clair, and Géza von Radványi among others. His three films with Carné in the late 1930s — Port of Shadows, Hôtel du Nord, and Le Jour Se Lève — are widely admired examples of poetic realism. He also directed films from 1935 to 1950. Perhaps the best-known is Colonel Chabert (1943), which was a film adaptation of a famous novella by Honoré de Balzac. Le Hénaff retired from filmmaking in 1968.

Editor

 * The Shark (1930)
 * Sous les toits de Paris (Under the Roofs of Paris) (1930)
 * À Nous la Liberté (1931)
 * Madame Makes Her Exit (1932)
 * Bastille Day (1933)
 * Le Scandal (The Scandal) (1934)
 * Samson (1936)
 * Le Quai des brumes (Port of Shadows) (1938)
 * Hôtel du Nord (1938)
 * Le Jour Se Lève (1939)
 * Beating Heart (1940)
 * The Lover of Borneo (1942)
 * Le Quai des brumes (Women Without Names) (1950)
 * L'Étrange Désir de monsieur Bard (Strange Desire of Mr. Bard) (1954)
 * A Girl Without Boundaries (1955)
 * Der Arzt von Stalingrad (The Doctor of Stalingrad) (1958)
 * Twelve Hours by the Clock (1959)

Director

 * Fort Dolorès (1939)
 * The Lover of Borneo (1942)
 * Colonel Chabert (1943)
 * St. Val's Mystery (1945)
 * Christine Gets Married (1946)
 * The Husbands of Leontine (1947)
 * Monsieur de Falindor (1947)
 * Scandal (1948)