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 Merciers 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 directors 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 Hosseins 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 Jai 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.

Filmes indisponível de Robert Hossein

Rififi

Rémi Grutter

Filme 1955

The Professional

Commissaire Rosen

Filme 1981

Trivial

Antoine Bérangère

Filme 2007

Prêtres interdits

Jean Rastaud

Filme 1973

Love Is Better Than Life

Robert Prat

Filme 2022

Versatile Lovers

Serge Belaïeff

Filme 1970

The Burglars

Ralph

Filme 1971

The Wax Mask

Boris Volkoff

Filme 1997

Crime and Punishment

René Brunel

Filme 1956

Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

Self

Filme 2011

The Vampire of Dusseldorf

Peter Kuerten

Filme 1965

Love on a Pillow

Renaud Sarti

Filme 1962

Children of Chaos

Robert

Filme 1989

Long March

Carnot

Filme 1966

Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables

Lui-même

Filme 2021

Forgive Our Trespasses

(uncredited)

Filme 1956

Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens

Filme 2022

San Antonio

Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister

Filme 2004

God's Thunder

Marcel

Filme 1965

A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later

Robert Hossein

Filme 1986

Blonde in a White Car

Pierre Menda

Filme 1959

Sextette

Filme 1948

The Devil Who Limped

Guest in white (uncredited)

Filme 1948

In the Eyes of Memory

A student from the Simon course

Filme 1948

Maya

Un témoin du meurtre qui n'a rien vu (uncredited)

Filme 1949

Paris Pick-Up

Robert Herbin

Filme 1962

Hitch-Hike

Edouard, le fou

Filme 1962

The Game of Truth

L'inspecteur de police

Filme 1961

Death of a Killer

Pierre Massa

Filme 1964

Marked Eyes

Franz

Filme 1964

The Battle of El Alamein

Erwin Rommel

Filme 1969

A Little Virtuous

Louis Brady

Filme 1968

Scandalous Crimes

Judge Bocchi

Filme 1999

The Phoney

Kaminsky

Filme 1975

Stranger in the House

Narrator (voice)

Filme 1992

The Protector

Arnaud

Filme 1974

Marco the Magnificent

Prince Nayam

Filme 1965

Highway Pick-Up

Daniel Boisset

Filme 1963

Belmondo, itinéraire...

Self

Filme 2011

Tender Moment

Enrico Fontana

Filme 1968

Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence

Self

Filme 2014

Time of the Wolves

Dillinger

Filme 1970

Riff Raff Girls

Marcel Point-Bleu

Filme 1959

The Taste of Violence

Perez

Filme 1961

OSS 117 Murder for Sale

Dr. Saadi

Filme 1968

The Wicked Go to Hell

Fred

Filme 1955

The Verdict

Georges Lagrange

Filme 1959

Enough Rope

Inspektor Corby

Filme 1963

Mademoiselle de Maupin

Captain Alcibiade

Filme 1966

Madame

Le sergent François-Joseph Lefebvre

Filme 1961

A Murder Is a Murder

Jean Carouse

Filme 1972

A Police Officer Without Importance

Pierre Fresse

Filme 1973

The Dirty Game

Dupont

Filme 1965

The Road to Shame

Pierre Rossi

Filme 1959

The Conspirators

Leonida Montanari

Filme 1969

Desert Assault

Capitaine Curd Heinz (Rudi en Français)

Filme 1969

Falling Point

Le Caïd

Filme 1970

Double Agents

Lui

Filme 1959

La Musica

Him

Filme 1967

The Scarlet Lady

Julien

Filme 1969

The Wretches

Jess Rooland

Filme 1960

The Other Truth

Pierre Montaud, the Advocate

Filme 1966

Vice and Virtue

SS Oberst Erik Schörndorf

Filme 1963

I Killed Rasputin

Serge Sukhotin

Filme 1967

A Man and His Dog

Un homme a la soupe populaire

Filme 2009

Misdeal

Martin von Klaus

Filme 1969

Young Girls Beware

Raven

Filme 1957

Levy & Goliath

Goliath customer (uncredited)

Filme 1987

Le Caviar rouge

Alex

Filme 1986

Brigade Anti Gangs

Le commissaire principal Le Goff

Filme 1966

Life Love Death

Man in the movie

Filme 1969

Why Paris?

Filme 1964

Le commissaire mène l’enquête

Filme 1965

Hellé

Filme 1972

Annie Girardot, ainsi va la vie

Self

Filme 2008

Crime Thief

Tian

Filme 1969

OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok

Dr. Sinn

Filme 1964

Lamiel

Roger Valber

Filme 1967

Une femme nommée Marie

Voce narrante

Filme 2011

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

Self

Filme 2006

The Menace

Savary

Filme 1961

Of Flesh and Blood

Samuel

Filme 1963

Judge Roy Bean

Black Bird

Filme 1971

L'Affaire

Paul Haslans

Filme 1994

Le tour d'écrou

Peter Quint

Filme 1974

Stars Meet in Moscow

Filme 1959

Crime Thief

Christian

Filme 1969

Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju

Self

Filme 2009

Take Me As I Am

Ed Dawson

Filme 1960

Antigone

Créon

Filme 2003

Démons de midi

Metteur en scène de théâtre

Filme 1979

The Lion's Share

Maurice Ménard

Filme 1971

Provisional Liberty

Filme 1958

La croisade des enfants

Philippe-Auguste

Filme 1988

Belmondo by Belmondo

Self

Filme 2016

The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia

Maître Bianchini

Filme 1967

Le Fruit de l'espoir

Le grand-père d'Angeli

Filme 2020

No Sun in Venice

Sforzi

Filme 1957

Aznavour by Charles

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Filme 2019

The Big Pardon

Manuel Carreras

Filme 1982

Quai des blondes

Chemise Rose

Filme 1954

Série noire

Jo

Filme 1955

Série de TV indisponível de Robert Hossein

Nulle part ailleurs

Self

Tv 1987

Le Grand Échiquier

Self

Tv 1972

Le Gorille

Joseph Beaucis

Tv 1990

Petits Meurtres en famille

Simon

Tv 2006

Spécial cinéma

Self

Tv 1974

Le Grand Échiquier

Self - Main Guest

Tv 1972

Champs-Elysées

Self

Tv 1982

Apostrophes

Self

Tv 1975

Cinépanorama

Self

Tv 1956

Téléthon

Self

Tv 1987

Vivement dimanche

Self

Tv 1998

Stars 90

self

Tv 1990

Samedi soir

Self

Tv 1971

Midi trente

Self

Tv 1972

Sacrée soirée

self

Tv 1987

Reflets de Cannes

Self

Tv 1954