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11 Facts About Robert Hossein

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Robert Hossein was a French film actor, director, and writer.

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Robert Hossein directed the 1982 adaptation of Les Miserables and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute.

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Right from the start Robert Hossein established his characteristic trademarks: using a seemingly straightforward suspense plot and subverting its conventions in order to concentrate on ritualistic relationships.

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Robert Hossein was not averse to trying his hand at widely different genres and was never defeated, making the strikingly different Spaghetti Western Cemetery Without Crosses and the low-budgeted but daringly subversive period drama I Killed Rasputin.

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However, because of the lack of wider success and continuing adverse criticism, Robert 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.

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Robert Hossein's father was Andre Hossein, a composer of Iranian Azerbaijani origin, and his mother was Anna Mincovschi, a Jewish comedy actress from Soroca.

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Robert Hossein was married three times: first to Marina Vlady, later on 7 June 1962, to Caroline Eliacheff, daughter of Francoise Giroud.

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Robert Hossein was fifteen at the time and he was 34.

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In 1971, Robert Hossein was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church.

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Robert Hossein had a special devotion to Saint Therese of Lisieux.

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Robert Hossein died of COVID-19 on 31 December 2020, one day after his 93rd birthday, during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.