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Robert Hossein was a French film actor of Parsi origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute. His most recent roles include starring as Michèle Mercier's husband in the Angélique series and as a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in Prêtres interdits (Forbidden Priests) in 1973.
Hossein started directing films in 1956 with Les salauds vont en enfer from a story by Frédéric Dard whose novels and plays went on to furnish Hossein with much of his later film material. Right from the start Hossein established his characteristic trademarks: using a seemingly straightforward suspense plot and subverting its conventions (sometimes to the extent of a complete disregard of the traditional demand for a final twist or revelation) in order to concentrate on ritualistic relationships. This is the director's running preoccupation which is always stressed in his films by an extraordinary command of film space and often striking frame compositions where the geometry of human figures and set design is used to accentuate the psychological set-up of the scene. The mechanisms of guilt and the way it destroys relationships is another recurring theme, presumably influenced by Hossein's lifelong interest in the works of Dostoyevski.
Although Hossein had some modest international successes with films like Toi, le venin and Le vampire de Dusseldorf, he was much singled out for scorching criticism by the critics and followers of the New Wave for the unashamedly melodramatic frameworks of his films. The fact that he was essentially an auteur director with a consistent set of themes and an extraordinary mastery of original and unusual approaches to staging his stories, was never appreciated. He was not averse to trying his hand at widely different genres and was never defeated, making the strikingly different spaghetti western Une corde, un Colt and the low-budgeted but daringly subversive period drama J'ai tué Raspoutine. However, because of the lack of wider success and continuing adverse criticism, Hossein virtually ended his film directing career in 1970, having concentrated on theatre where his achievements were never questioned, and subsequently returning to film directing only twice. With two or three exceptions, his films remain commercially unavailable and very difficult to see.
He is the son of André Hossein a Zoroastrian French composer of Azerbaijani-Tajik descent, and a Jewish comedy actress from Kiev. He was married three times: first to Marina Vlady (he has two sons with her, Pierre and Igor), later to Caroline Eliacheff (with whom he has a son, Nicholas). He is currently married to actress Candice Patou, with whom he has one son, Julien.
According to an article written by Emannuel Peze, Hossein experienced a conversion to Catholicism in 1971 during a visit to the Marian apparition at San Damiano in Lombardo Italy.
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21 December 1968
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
29 January 1969
François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague.
05 May 2003
Having defied the ban on Creon and offered a burial to Polynice, her treacherous homeland brother, Antigone is condemned to a slow death in a stone tomb, despite the interposition of Hémon, her fiance, the son of Creon .
20 May 1959
Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel.
16 May 1958
Jean-Paul is a Frenchman who yearns to live in communist Czechoslovakia. His wish is granted when, mistaken as a masseur of a French boating team, he manages to elude the democratic authorities long enough to scamper over the Czech border.
28 November 1979
At 45, divorced, unemployed and father of two children, Franois Morot realizes that he can no longer support the society in which he lives and decides to leave everything.
26 February 1999
In Parma, conversing with a CSM judge from Rome, the judge Bocchi tells what intrigues are hidden behind the beautiful and charming facade of the city, referring in detail to the latest and most 'chatted episode.
23 April 2006
The beginnings, development and decline of so-called spaghetti-western genre; with clips, interviews and opinions of producers, actors and directors.
24 October 1969
Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.
21 October 1981
Josselin Beaumont, a French secret agent, is tasked with assassinating Njala, the president for life of Malawi in Africa.
01 March 1961
Josepha is on the verge eighteen living with her drunken washed up actor uncle. She longs for the companionship of a group of her mo-ped riding peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line.
12 April 1973
Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can.
24 June 1964
Monique, a Belgian girl, comes to Paris to learn painting and become an artist. She took courses at the Academy and found a studio in Montmartre.
13 April 1955
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence.
13 March 1968
Angélique is in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. She refuses to be bedded as her captors try to beat sense into her.
31 May 1966
In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards).
08 December 1964
In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him.
13 April 1994
A man who had everything taken away from him, including his family, by his brother teams up with a young card player in order to take revenge on the brother.
09 September 1959
Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Robert Le Beal. A brilliant "little" spy film. Hossein and Vlady play mysterious characters who meet up one night in a lonely cabin in the wilds of Normandy.
20 October 1982
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert.
08 May 1960
Meant to be a psychological study of a dysfunctional couple and an equally unbalanced maid, this slow-paced, murky melodrama stars Michele Morgan and Robert Hossein as Thelma and Jess, two Americans who move into a down-at-the-heels Paris neighborhood.
01 January 1995
Parajanov lifts the curtain on numerous unfinished scenes and fragments of unshot films. These are memories of his childhood, death, friends, Tiflis, Kyiv, Yerevan.
11 September 1970
Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay up the ransom.
23 June 1965
A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.
21 October 1967
Angelique goes in search of her husband Joffrey de Peyrac who did not die on the stake.
30 July 1969
Allied and German forces are stranded in desert during WW II and attempt to surrender each other.
25 January 1969
A melancholic gunfighter is drawn into a vengeful and tragic kidnapping plot by his widowed ex-lover.
05 September 2022
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour.
31 January 1966
Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty.
02 October 1959
WW2 is coming to an end. On the seaside, resistant fighters are captured and imprisoned in a basement.
22 May 1969
A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.
01 August 1956
In a port area of France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies.
12 June 1964
A secret agent sets out to stop an evil scientist who is about to unleash on the world a virulent biological strain he has developed during experiments on rats.
06 August 1965
Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
03 May 1967
Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne.
06 May 1970
Isabell runs a nursing home for wealthy women who are trying to detox from their various obsessions. Her lover, Serge Belaiev, a petty gangster, has pulled off a big hit but his partners have denounced him to the police in order to appropriate his share of the loot.
03 February 1999
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station.
04 April 1997
Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out.
27 October 1971
In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad.
14 May 1969
Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.
27 May 1981
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s.
22 March 1995
In WWII France, poor and illiterate Henri Fortin is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
05 September 1962
After rescuing a man from a suicide attempt, Geneviève's life is hijacked by his verbal and emotional abuse, yet she can't seem to tear herself from him.
04 May 1962
On Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of things to hide.
13 January 1966
Mademoiselle de Maupin escapes from her uncle's castle, invaded by Hungarian troops, under the guise of a clergyman named Theodore.
23 August 1972
Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
20 December 1968
An eighteen-year-old student is infatuated with an older woman, the mistress of a famous racing driver.
26 October 1975
Spain, 16th century. The beautiful Dona Sol inspired a deep passion in Hernani, banished from the kingdom.
07 April 1965
A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.
03 October 1992
Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink.
25 October 2011
A profile of Jean-Paul Belmondo by his peers. Besides appearing in over eighty films, the actor also delighted audiences with his dangerous stunts, his laughter, his jokes, and his refreshing ease and impertinence.
21 January 1970
Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend.
10 August 1961
Perez kidnaps the President's daughter to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries.
01 April 1964
When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration.
18 August 1966
The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long.
