- published: 01 Feb 2016
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Robert Hossein (born as Hosseinhof December 30, 1927 in Paris) is a French film actor of Azeri Jew 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.
Actors: Anouk Aimée (actress), Jacques Weber (actor), Tom Novembre (actor), Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (actor), Jean-Louis Trintignant (actor), Gérard Oury (actor), Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (actor), Pierre Aknine (actor), Jean-Claude Brialy (actor), Charles Gérard (actor), Robert Hossein (actor), Richard Berry (actor), Philippe Leroy (actor), Evelyne Bouix (actress), Philippe Leroy (actor),
Plot: Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.
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