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Nina Companeez
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.
Selected filmography.
Selected filmography Writer.
- "Tonight or Never" (
Jacques Companeez
Jacques Companeez (Russian: Яков Компанеец, "Yaakov Kompanéyets", born in Nizhyn, Ukraine 1906–1956) was a Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter in Paris.
He arrived in Paris in 1936 after study in Berlin, and wrote 80 screenplays, one of his first being co-writing Les Bas-fonds for Jean Renoir (1936). His older daughter is the contralto Irène Companeez, who recorded with Maria Callas and was married to great Italian Baritone Dino Dondi. His younger daughter Nina Companeez was also a