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Mathieu Kassovitz (French pronunciation: ​[matjø kasɔvits]; born 3 August 1967) is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He is the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company. He has won three César Awards: Most Promising Actor for See How They Fall (1994), and Best Film and Best Editing for La Haine (1995). He also received Best Director and Best Writing nominations.

Mathieu Kassovitz
Kassovitz at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Born	(1967-08-03) 3 August 1967 (age 55) Paris, Île-de-France, France
Nationality	French
Occupation	Actor • film director • film producer • screenwriter
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Julie Mauduech
Website	mathieukassovitz.com

Early life

He is the son of Peter Kassovitz, a director and writer, and Chantal Rémy, a film editor.[1] His mother is a French Catholic, while his father is a Hungarian Jew who fled during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.[2] Mathieu has described himself as "not Jewish but I was brought up in a world of Jewish humor".[2]

Career

Filmmaker

As a filmmaker, Kassovitz has made several artistic and commercial successes. He wrote and directed La Haine (Hate, 1996), a film dealing with themes around class, race, violence, and police brutality.[3] The film won the César Award for Best Film and netted Kassovitz the Best Director prize at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.[4]

He later directed Les Rivières Pourpres (2000), a police detective thriller starring Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel, another massive commercial success in France, and Gothika (2003), a fantasy thriller (considered by some to be a commercial failure, although it grossed over three times its roughly $40 million budget), with Halle Berry and Penélope Cruz. He used the money he made from Gothika to develop a far more personal project Babylon Babies, the adaptation of one of Maurice Dantec's books.[1] Kassovitz established the film production firm MNP Entreprise in 2000 "to develop and produce feature films by Kassovitz and to represent him as a director and actor."[5] MNP Entreprise is responsible for the co-productions of a number of films including Avida (2006) in which Kassovitz acts and Babylon A.D. which he directed. Kassovitz purchased the film rights for the novel Johnny Mad Dog by Congolese writer Emmanuel Dongala. The film was also co-produced by MNP Entreprise, and directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire. The premiere of the film was made at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival where it was screened within the Un Certain Regard section.[6]

In 2011, he starred in and directed Rebellion, a war film based on a true story of French commandos who clashed with tribes in New Caledonia, the Melanesian territory of France. His future project science fiction film MNP is named after Mir Space Station, whose writing in Cyrillic letters (Мир) look like the letters MNP, and also the production company.[7]

Actor

Kassovitz is most famous outside France for his acting role as Nino Quincampoix in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film Amélie. He also had small roles in La Haine (which he also directed), Birthday Girl, and The Fifth Element. He played leading roles in A Self-Made Hero (1996) by Jacques Audiard and in Amen. (2003) by Costa-Gavras. Kassovitz is also recognizable for playing a conflicted Belgian explosives expert in Steven Spielberg's 2005 film Munich, alongside Eric Bana and Geoffrey Rush. Kassovitz was a jury member for the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2015, Kassovitz has been starring in the acclaimed espionage thriller series The Bureau, broadcast in France on Canal+ and made available around the world on Amazon TV. So far five seasons have been screened.

Personal life

Kassovitz is married to French actress Julie Mauduech, whom he directed and acted alongside in his 1993 film Métisse (Café au lait, English title) and who made a brief appearance in La Haine (during the scene in the Parisian art gallery).[8][9]

In 2009, Kassovitz won with a Tesla Roadster (2008) the Rallye Monte Carlo des Véhicules à Énergie Alternative (starting event of the FIA Alternative Energies Cup) in the category reserved to electric vehicles.[10][11]

Kassovitz is also known for his outspokenness, frequently making controversial comments on socio-political issues.^{[citation needed]} Kassovitz was an ardent critic of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, whom he described in his blog as having "ideas that not only reveal his inexperience of politics and human relations, but which also illuminate the purely demagogical and egocentric aspects of a puny, would-be Napoleon."[12] In a 2012 interview, he labeled the outgoing Sarkozy administration as "horrible".[13]

Filmography

As filmmaker

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
		Director	Screenwriter	Producer
1990	Fierrot le pou	Yes	Yes		Short film
1991	Cauchemar Blanc	Yes	Yes		Short film 1991 Cannes Film Festival - Perspectives du Cinéma Award Chicago International Film Festival - Best Short Film
1992	Assassins...	Yes	Yes		Short film
1993	Métisse	Yes	Yes		Feature directorial debut Festival du Film de Paris - Special Jury Prize Nominated—César Award for Best First Feature Film
1995	La Haine	Yes	Yes		Also as co-editor 1995 Cannes Film Festival - Best Director César Award for Best Film César Award for Best Editing European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year Lumières Award for Best Film Lumières Award for Best Director Nominated—1995 Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Nominated—César Award for Best Director Nominated—César Award for Best Writing Nominated—European Film Award for Best Film
1996	Lumières sur un massacre	Yes			Documentary short (segment: La Forêt)
1997	Assassin(s)	Yes	Yes		Also as co-editor Nominated—1997 Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or
1998	Article Premier	Yes			Short film
2000	The Crimson Rivers	Yes	Yes		Nominated—César Award for Best Director Nominated—European Film Academy People's Choice Award for Best European Film Nominated—San Sebastián International Film Festival - Golden Shell
2003	Gothika	Yes
2004	La Chepor			Yes	Short film
2005	Nèg Maron			Yes
2006	White Palms			Yes
2006	Avida			Yes
2007	Les Deux Mondes			Yes
2008	Enfants de Don Quichotte (Acte 1)			Yes	Documentary
2008	Johnny Mad Dog			Yes
2008	Babylon A.D.	Yes	Yes	Yes
2008	Louise Hires a Contract Killer			Yes
2011	Rebellion	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also as co-editor Nominated—César Award for Best Adaptation

As actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	Médecins de nuit		TV series
1979	Au bout du bout du banc	Mathias Oppenheim
1981	Next Year If All Goes Well	A boy
1983	La Vie de Berlioz	Young Berlioz	TV mini-series
1990	Fierrot le pou		Short film Also as director and screenwriter
1992	Touch and Die	Piaz	Telefilm
1992	Un été sans histoires	A hitchhiker
1992	Assassins...		Short film Also as director and screenwriter
1993	Métisse	Felix	Also as director and screenwriter Nominated—César Award for Most Promising Actor
1994	Elle voulait faire quelque chose	Mathieu	Short film
1994	Avant mais après		Short film
1994	3000 scénarios contre un virus		TV series
1994	See How They Fall	Johnny	César Award for Most Promising Actor
1994	Putain de porte		Short film
1995	The City of Lost Children	Man on the street	Uncredited
1995	La Haine	Young Skinhead	Also as director, screenwriter and editor
1995	Les Fleurs de Maria Papadopylou		Short film
1996	My Man	1st Client: Clément	Uncredited
1996	A Self-Made Hero	Albert Dehousse
1996	News from the Good Lord	A nurse
1997	The Fifth Element	Mugger
1997	Assassin(s)	Max	Also as director and screenwriter
1998	Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences)	Roland
1999	Jakob the Liar	Herschel
2001	Amélie	Nino Quincampoix	Swann d'Or for Best Actor
2001	Birthday Girl	Yuri
2002	Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra	Physionomiste banquet
2002	Amen.	Riccardo Fontana	Nominated—César Award for Best Actor
2005	Munich	Robert
2006	Avida	The producer	Also as producer
2008	Louise Hires a Contract Killer	The farm owner	Also as producer
2011	Rebellion	Philippe Legorjus	Also as director, screenwriter and producer
2011	Haywire	Studer
2012	Another Woman's Life	Paul Speranski
2012	Le Guetteur	Vincent Kaminski
2013	Angélique	Nicolas / Calembredaine
2014	Nobody from Nowhere	Sébastien Nicolas / Henri de Montalte
2014	Wild Life	Paco (Philippe Fournier)	Nominated—Lumières Award for Best Actor
2015–present	The Bureau	Malotru	TV series
2016	War & Peace	Napoléon Bonaparte	TV series
2016	Le Gang des Antillais	Bar owner
2016	Apocalypse Verdun	Voice-over	Documentary
2017	Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets	Camelot on Big Market
2017	Happy End	Thomas Laurent
2017	Sparring	Steve Landry
2017	De plus belle
2019	The Wolf's Call	ALFOST	"ALFOST" is not a name. It is an acronym designating the admiral commanding the SSBN fleet of the French Navy. It stands for AmiraL commandant la Force Océanique STratégique (Admiral commanding the Strategic Oceanic Force)
2021	The Accusation [fr]	Adam

References

External links

• Official website
• Mathieu Kassovitz at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Mathieu Kassovitz

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[es] Mathieu Kassovitz

Mathieu Kassovitz (n. París, 3 de agosto de 1967) es un actor, guionista, director y productor de cine francés. Es hijo del director francés Peter Kassovitz, de origen judío húngaro, y de Chantal Remy, una montadora francesa.

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[ru] Кассовиц, Матьё

Матьё Кассовиц (фр. Mathieu Kassovitz, род. 3 августа 1967 года в Париже) — французский кинорежиссёр, сценарист и актёр.

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