---
name: "Alain Levent"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alain-levent"
fi1m_id: "alain-levent"
imdb_id: "nm0505281"
tmdb_id: 21168
wikidata_id: "Q2484050"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "15 September 1934"
died: "28 August 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-26T15:07:01.827550+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alain Levent

## Identity

Alain Levent

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alain-levent
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alain-levent
- **IMDb ID:** nm0505281
- **TMDB ID:** 21168
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2484050
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Levent, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2484050, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505281/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21168

Cinematographer. Born 15 September 1934 in Paris, France. Died 28 August 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 15 September 1934, Paris, France
- **Died:** 28 August 2008
- **Active:** 1959–1963
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 91 (1), 1960s 87 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 88 to 84 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Levent, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2484050, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505281/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21168

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Cléo from 5 to 7*](https://film.one/film/cleo-from-5-to-7.md) (88)

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## Biography

Alain Levent (15 September 1934 – 28 August 2008) was a French cinematographer and film director. Born in Paris, he began his career in the late 1950s as a camera assistant on films including *The 400 Blows* (1959). He worked as camera operator or co-cinematographer on *Cléo from 5 to 7* (1962), directed by Agnès Varda.

Levent served as director of photography on numerous films of the French New Wave and beyond, including *The Nun* (1966), *L'Amour fou* (1969), *My Uncle Benjamin* (1969) and *Atlantic Wall* (1970). He directed the feature *The Bar at the Crossing* (1972), which was entered in the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. He worked on around 80 films between 1960 and 2007.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Contempt* (1963), Fi1m 86, Second Unit Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/contempt.md)
- *Cléo from 5 to 7* (1962), Fi1m 88, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/cleo-from-5-to-7.md)
- *The 400 Blows* (1959), Fi1m 91, Assistant Camera — [page](https://film.one/film/the-400-blows.md)

## Complete filmography (60)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Nadia and Sarra* (2004), Director of Photography
- *Silence of the Sea* (2004), Director of Photography
- *The Kite* (2004), Director of Photography
- *L'Affaire Dominici* (2003), series, Director of Photography
- *L'Affaire Dominici* (2003), Director of Photography
- *Roues libres* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Daughter of Keltoum* (2001), Director of Photography
- *The Story of a Rose* (2000), Director of Photography
- *The Mirage* (1992), Director of Photography
- *Bezness* (1992), Director of Photography
- *The Madonna and the Dragon* (1990), Director of Photography
- *The Day of Reckoning* (1990), Director of Photography
- *Chillers* (1990), series, Director of Photography
- *Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice* (1989), Director of Photography
- *Un coupable* (1988), Director of Photography
- *L'Homme qui n'était pas là* (1987), Director of Photography
- *Un métier de seigneur* (1986), Director of Photography
- *Faubourg St Martin* (1986), Director of Photography
- *Brantôme 81: Vie de dames galantes* (1982), Director of Photography
- *The Bit Between the Teeth* (1979), Director of Photography
- *Spoiled Children* (1977), Director of Photography
- *The Question* (1977), Director of Photography
- *Dracula and Son* (1976), Director of Photography
- *The Acrobat* (1976), Director of Photography
- *The Phoney* (1975), Director of Photography
- *The Irony of Chance* (1974), Director of Photography
- *Naked Sex* (1973), Director of Photography
- *Far West* (1973), Director of Photography
- *The Bar at the Crossing* (1972), Director, Writer
- *Franz* (1972), Director of Photography
- *Atlantic Wall* (1970), Director of Photography
- *My Uncle Benjamin* (1969), Director of Photography
- *Les Gauloises bleues* (1969), Director of Photography
- *Love and Anger* (1969), Director of Photography
- *L'Amour fou* (1969), Director of Photography
- *Death of a Jew* (1969), Director of Photography
- *Bonnot's Gang* (1968), Director of Photography
- *Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another* (1967), Director of Photography
- *Far from Vietnam* (1967), Director of Photography
- *Lamiel* (1967), Director of Photography
- *The Nun* (1967), Director of Photography
- *Objective: 500 Million* (1966), Director of Photography
- *A Bullet Through the Heart* (1966), Director of Photography
- *The Queen of Spades* (1965), Director of Photography
- *Six in Paris* (1965), Director of Photography
- *Place de l'Étoile* (1965), Director of Photography
- *The Vampire of Dusseldorf* (1965), Director of Photography
- *The Thief of Tibadabo* (1965), Director of Photography
- *Rue Saint-Denis* (1965), Director of Photography
- *Cover Girls* (1964), Director of Photography
- *Bassae* (1964), Director of Photography
- *Contempt* (1963), Second Unit Director of Photography — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/contempt.md)
- *Bluebeard* (1963), Camera Operator
- *Sign of the Lion* (1962), First Assistant Camera
- *Cléo from 5 to 7* (1962), Director of Photography — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/cleo-from-5-to-7.md)
- *The Seven Deadly Sins* (1962), Camera Operator
- *The Joker* (1961), First Assistant Camera
- *Gala* (1961), Director of Photography
- *The 400 Blows* (1959), Assistant Camera — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/the-400-blows.md)
- *Véronique and Her Dunce* (1959), Assistant Camera

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