Robert Hossein - Фильмы

Robert Hossein (born as Hosseinhof December 30, 1927 in Paris) is a French film actor of Парси origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 экранизация of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les et les Autres Нас and Venus Beauty Institute. His most recent starring roles include as Michèle Mercier's husband in the Анжелик series and as a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist в Prêtres interdits (Forbidden Priests) в 1973 году. Хоссейн started режиссура фильма в 1956 with Les salauds vont en enfer from a story by Frédéric Dard whose novels and plays went on to furnish Хоссейн with much of his later кадры. Right from the start Хоссейн established his characteristic trademarks: using a seemingly straightforward саспенс plot and subverting its conventions (sometimes to the extent of a complete игнорировать 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 space фильм striking and often 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 Хоссейн had some Модест 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, что never appreciated. He was not averse to trying his hand at widely different genres and was never defeated, the making strikingly different spaghetti western Une corde, un Colt and the low-budgeted but daringly подрывной period drama j'AI tué Raspoutine. However, because of the lack of wider success and continuing adverse criticism, Хоссейн virtually ended his режиссура фильма карьера в 1970, having concentrated on theatre where his achievements were never questioned, and returning to subsequently фильм режиссура only twice. With two or three exceptions, his films remain commercially unavailable and very difficult to see. He is the son of André Хоссейн a Zoroastrian French composer of Azerbaijani-Tajik descent, and a Jewish comedy actress from Kiev. He was married three times: first to Марина Влади (he has with her two sons, Pierre and Игорь), later to Caroline Eliacheff (with whom he has a son, Николай). He is currently married to actress Кэндис Пату, with whom he has one son, Жюльен. According to an article written by Emannuel Peze, Хоссейн experienced a conversion to Catholicism в 1971 during a visit to the Marian apparition at San Damiano Ломбардо в Италии.