Robert Hossein
Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Hossein, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Picking Strawberries
Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens
Self
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Love Is Better Than Life
Robert Prat
Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
Self (archive footage)
Noni : Le Fruit de l'espoir
Le grand-père d'Angeli
Aznavour by Charles
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Belmondo by Belmondo
Self
Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
Self
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Self
Une femme nommée Marie
Narrator (voice)
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Self
Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
Self
A Man and His Dog
Un homme a la soupe populaire
Annie Girardot, ainsi va la vie
Self
Trivial
Antoine Bérangère
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Self
San Antonio
Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister
Antigone
Créon
Scandalous Crimes
Judge Bocchi
Venus Beauty Institute
L'aviateur
The Wax Mask
Boris Volkoff
Les Miserables
Le maître de cérémonie
Paradjanov, le dernier collage
Self
L'Affaire
Paul Haslans
Stranger in the House
Narrator (voice)
Children of Chaos
Robert
La croisade des enfants
Philippe-Auguste
Levy & Goliath
Goliath customer (uncredited)
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Robert Hossein
Le Caviar rouge
Alex
Surprise-party
André Auerbach
The Big Pardon
Manuel Carreras
The Professional
Commissaire Rosen
Bolero
Simon Meyer / Robert Prat
Démons de midi
Metteur en scène de théâtre
The Phoney
Kaminsky
The Protector
Arnaud
Le Tour d'Écrou
Peter Quint
Prêtres interdits
Jean Rastaud
A Police Officer Without Importance
Pierre Fresse
Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
Louis Prévost
A Murder Is a Murder
Jean Carouse
Hellé
Kleber
The Burglars
Ralph
The Lion's Share
Maurice Ménard
Judge Roy Bean
Black Bird
Falling Point
Le Caïd
Versatile Lovers
Serge Belaïeff
Time of the Wolves
Dillinger
The Conspirators
Leonida Montanari
Desert Assault
Capitaine Curd Heinz (Rudi en Français)
Crime Thief
Tian
The Scarlet Lady
Julien
Misdeal
Martin von Klaus
Life Love Death
Man in the movie
Cemetery Without Crosses
Manuel
The Battle of El Alamein
Erwin Rommel
Tender Moment
Enrico Fontana
OSS 117 Murder for Sale
Dr. Saadi
Angelique and the Sultan
Joffrey de Peyrac "Le Rescator"
A Little Virtuous
Louis Brady
Untamable Angelique
Joffrey de Peyrac, 'Le Rescator'
Lamiel
Roger Valber
The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
Maître Bianchini
I Killed Rasputin
Serge Sukhotin
La Musica
Him
Brigade Anti Gangs
Chief Commissioner Le Goff
Long March
Carnot
The Other Truth
Pierre Montaud, the Advocate
Angelique and the King
Jeoffrey de Peyrac
Mademoiselle de Maupin
Captain Alcibiade
God's Thunder
Marcel
Marco the Magnificent
Prince Nayam
Le commissaire mène l’enquête
The lover (segment "Pour qui sonne le ...")
The Dirty Game
Dupont
The Vampire of Dusseldorf
Peter Kuerten
Angelique
Jeoffrey de Peyrac
Marked Eyes
Franz
Why Paris?
OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok
Dr. Sinn
Death of a Killer
Pierre Massa
Highway Pick-Up
Daniel Boisset
Of Flesh and Blood
Samuel
Vice and Virtue
SS Oberst Erik Schörndorf
Enough Rope
Inspektor Corby
Love on a Pillow
Renaud Sarti
Paris Pick-Up
Robert Herbin
Hitch-Hike
Edouard, le fou
Madame
Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre
The Game of Truth
L'inspecteur de police
The Taste of Violence
Perez
The Menace
Savary
The Wretches
Jess Rooland
Take Me As I Am
Ed Dawson
The Verdict
Georges Lagrange
Double Agents
Lui
Stars Meet in Moscow
Self
Riff Raff Girls
Marcel Point-Bleu
The Road to Shame
Pierre Rossi
Blonde in a White Car
Pierre Menda
Provisional Liberty
Jean-Paul Viberty / Jean Rungis
Young Girls Beware
Raven
No Sun in Venice
Sforzi
Crime and Punishment
René Brunel
Forgive Our Trespasses
(uncredited)
The Wicked Go to Hell
Fred
Rififi
Rémi Grutter
Série noire
Jo
Quai des blondes
Chemise Rose
Maya
Un témoin du meurtre qui n'a rien vu (uncredited)
In the Eyes of Memory
A student from the Simon course
Sextette
The Devil Who Limped
Guest in white (uncredited)