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Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein (30 December 1927 – 31 December 2020) was a French film actor, director, and writer. He directed the 1982 adaptation of ''Les Misérables'' and appeared in ''Vice and Virtue'', '' Le Casse'', ''Les Uns et les Autres'' and ''Venus Beauty Institute''. His other roles include Michèle Mercier's husband in the '' Angélique'' series, a gunfighter in the Spaghetti Western ''Cemetery Without Crosses'' (which he also directed and co-wrote), and a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in ''Forbidden Priests''. Cinematic career Hossein started directing films in 1955 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 tradition ...
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Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ...
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Forbidden Priests
''Forbidden Priests'' (''Prêtres interdits'') is a French film directed by Denys de La Patellière in 1973 starring Robert Hossein and Claude Jade. Synopsis This French melodrama tells the tragic story of a rare couple: Priest Jean (Robert Hossein), who falls in love with a young woman, the 17-year-old girl Françoise (Claude Jade was 25 during the shooting), has relations with her, and gets her pregnant. That happens during World War II. Some years later Françoise waits for her majority to get her child out from the orphanage and Jean becomes a communist. Cast * Robert Hossein - Jean Rastaud * Claude Jade - Françoise Bernardeau * Claude Piéplu - Father Grégoire Ancely * Pierre Mondy - Paul Lacoussade * Louis Seigner Louis Seigner (23 June 1903 – 20 January 1991) was a French actor. He was born in Saint-Chef, Isère, France, the son of Louise (Monin) and Joseph Seigner, and died in Paris. He was the father of actress Françoise Seigner, with Marie Cazeaux, ... - Bis ...
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Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia (Republic of Dagestan) to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city. The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic proclaimed its independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918 and became the first secular democratic Muslim-majority state. In 1920, the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan SSR. The modern Republic of Azerbaijan proclaimed its independence on 30 August 1991, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the same year. In September 1991, the ethnic Armenian majority of the Nagorno-Karabakh region formed the ...
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I Killed Rasputin
''I Killed Rasputin'' (french: J'ai tué Raspoutine) is a 1967 Italo-Franco biographical film directed by Robert Hossein. Gert Fröbe stars as the main subject, Grigori Rasputin. It is based on the work ''Lost Splendor'' by Felix Yusupov, a nobleman and participant in the murder of Rasputin.A.H. Weiler, ''The Flight Plan of 'Peter Pan' ''], New York Times. pp. 11. 27 November February 1966. Retrieved on 30 July 2011. The script was approved by Yusupov and he also agreed to appear in the film. In the introductory interview of the film, Yusupov demonstrated that his loathing for Rasputin remained undiminished.'Cannes Festival opens', New York Times. pp. 36. 28 April 1967 Filming began at the Billancourt Studios in Paris in December 1966. The film opened the 1967 Cannes Film Festival and later that year was released theatrically in France on 3 May. Plot Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the ...
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Auteur
An auteur (; , 'author') is an artist with a distinctive approach, usually a film director whose filmmaking control is so unbounded but personal that the director is likened to the "author" of the film, which thus manifests the director's unique style or thematic focus. As an unnamed value, auteurism originated in French film criticism of the late 1940s, and derives from the critical approach of André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc, whereas American critic Andrew Sarris in 1962 called it auteur theory. Yet the concept first appeared in French in 1955 when director François Truffaut termed it ''policy of the authors'', and interpreted the films of some directors, like Alfred Hitchcock, as a body revealing recurring themes and preoccupations. American actor Jerry Lewis directed his own 1960 film ''The Bellboy'' via sweeping control, and was praised for "personal genius." By 1970, the New Hollywood era emerged with studios granting directors broad leeway. Pauline Kael argued, howev ...
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French New Wave
French New Wave (french: La Nouvelle Vague) is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favor of experimentation and a spirit of iconoclasm. New Wave filmmakers explored new approaches to editing, visual style, and narrative, as well as engagement with the social and political upheavals of the era, often making use of irony or exploring existential themes. The New Wave is often considered one of the most influential movements in the history of cinema. The term was first used by a group of French film critics and cinephiles associated with the magazine '' Cahiers du cinéma'' in the late 1950s and 1960s. These critics rejected the ''Tradition de qualité'' ("Tradition of Quality") of mainstream French cinema, which emphasized craft over innovation and old works over experimentation. This was apparent in a manifesto-like 1954 essay by François Truffaut, ''Une certaine tenda ...
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The Vampire Of Düsseldorf
''The Vampire of Düsseldorf'' (french: Le Vampire de Düsseldorf) is a 1965 thriller film directed by Robert Hossein. It was joint production between Spain, France and Italy. The film was based on the life and crimes of German serial killer Peter Kürten. Production ''The Vampire of Düsseldorf'' was shot between September 28, 1964, and December 10, 1964. Reception Seeing the film at a preview screening in Paris, "Mosk." of ''Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety show, in theater and television Films * ''Variety'' (1925 film), a German silent film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont * ''Variety'' (1935 film), ...'' stated that Hossein had "wisely not tried to emulate '' M'' and that "Hossein obviously has seen and assimilated many of these pix and does not imitate but takes the ideas and aspects of the times. But this only a moderate suspense item, which may be an okay play-off item on its theme, with arty ch ...
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Toi, Le Venin
''Toi, le venin'' (aka: ''Blonde in a White Car''; US title: ''Nude in a White Car''; UK title: ''Night Is Not for Sleep'') is a 1958 French crime drama film directed and written by Robert Hossein, based on the novel ''C'est toi le venin...'' by Frédéric Dard. The music score was by André Hossein. The film tells the story of a young man who has affairs with two sisters. Cast *Robert Hossein as Pierre Menda *Marina Vlady as Eva Lecain *Odile Versois as Hélène Lecain *Héléna Manson as Amélie * Henri Crémieux as Le docteur * Pascal Mazzotti as L'homme de la discothèque *Henri Arius as Titin *Charles Blavette as L'inspecteur de police *Lucien Callamand Lucien Callamand born Lucien Marie Pascal Eugène Callamand (April 1, 1888, in Marseille – December 3, 1968, in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes) was one of the earliest French film actors whose career spanned six decades of French cinema. Between 1909 ... as Julien, le jardinier External links * * *''Toi, le venin''at filmsdefran ...
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Stevan Kragujevic, Anthony Quinn & Robert Hossein In Belgrade, 1969
Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; he is widely regarded as the first martyr (or "protomartyr") of the Christian Church. In English, Stephen is most commonly pronounced as ' (). The name, in both the forms Stephen and Steven, is often shortened to Steve or Stevie. The spelling as Stephen can also be pronounced which is from the Greek original version, Stephanos. In English, the female version of the name is Stephanie. Many surnames are derived from the first name, including Stephens, Stevens, Stephenson, and Stevenson, all of which mean "Stephen's (son)". In modern times the name has sometimes been given with intentionally non-standard spelling, such as Stevan or Stevon. A common variant of the name used in English is Stephan ; related names that have found some curre ...
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13th Moscow International Film Festival
The 13th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 7 to 21 July 1983. The Golden Prizes were awarded to the Moroccan-Guinea-Senegalese film '' Amok'' directed by Souheil Ben-Barka, the Nicaraguan-Cuban-Mexican-Costa Rican film ''Alsino and the Condor'' directed by Miguel Littín and the Soviet film ''Vassa'' directed by Gleb Panfilov. Jury * Stanislav Rostotsky (USSR – President of the Jury) * Maya-Gozel Aimedova (USSR) * Vladimir Baskakov USSR) * Blanca Guerra (Mexico) * Cesare Zavattini (Italy) * Jacques Duqeau-Rupp (France) * Stanisław Mikulski (Poland) * Ulyses Petit de Murat (Argentina) * Ion Popescu-Gopo (Romania) * Dusan Roll (Czechoslovakia) * Alimata Salambere (Upper Volta) * Mrinal Sen (India) * Georgi Stoyanov (Bulgaria) * Pham Nguoc Truong (Vietnam) * Theo Hinz (West Germany) Films in competition The following films were selected for the main competition: Awards * Golden Prizes: ** '' Amok'' by Souheil Ben-Barka ** ''Alsino and the Condor'' by Migu ...
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5th Moscow International Film Festival
The 5th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 July 1967. The Grand Prix was shared between the Soviet film '' The Journalist'', directed by Sergei Gerasimov and the Hungarian film ''Father'', directed by István Szabó. The festival line-up included the film ''Spellbound Wood'', directed by Norodom Sihanouk, the former King of Cambodia. Jury * Sergei Yutkevich (USSR - President of the Jury) * Román Viñoly Barreto (Argentina) * Aleksey Batalov (USSR) * Lucyna Winnicka (Poland) * Todor Dinov (Bulgaria) * Hagamasa Kawakita (Japan) * Leslie Caron (France) * András Kovács (Hungary) * Grigori Kozintsev (USSR) * Robert Hossein (France) * Jiří Sequens (Czechoslovakia) * Dimitri Tiomkin (USA) * Andrew Thorndike (East Germany) * Leonardo Fioravanti (Italy) Films in competition The following films were selected for the main competition: Awards * Grand Prix: ** '' The Journalist'' by Sergei Gerasimov ** ''Father'' by István Szabó * Special Golden Prize: '' ...
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Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include ''Crime and Punishment'' (1866), ''The Idiot'' (1869), ''Demons'' (1872), and ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1880). His 1864 novella, ''Notes from Underground'', is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influent ...
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