Michel Subor

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Michel Subor ( Paris , February 2, 1935 - January 17, 2022 ) was a French actor . Michel Subor achieved film fame with the title role in Jean-Luc Godard's The Little Soldier (1960) and as Claude Jade 's film husband in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (1969).

Life

Born Mischa Subotzki in Paris in 1935, his father was from Russia and his mother from Azerbaijan.

He made his film debut in 1958 in a supporting role in Un drôle de dimanche . As early as 1959 he had a major role in the comedy Mon pote le gitan as the film son of Roger Hanin . In 1960 he played the title role of Bruno Forestier in Jean-Luc Godard's The Little Soldier . The film is banned because of the tightened film censorship during the Algerian war . Michel Subor is best known for starring in two critically maligned comedies: opposite Brigitte Bardot in Roger Vadim's Trained at Freedom and opposite Marie-France Pisier in Girl with the Pious Eye. The deserter drama Holidays in Hell shows him as a sensitive actor. In addition, Michel Subor will narrate François Truffaut's Jules and Jim .

Then comes the breakthrough when Godard's The Little Soldier comes to the cinema in 1963 after the end of the war and the lifting of the ban and makes its leading actors Michel Subor and Anna Karina stars. Michel Subor will now be Marie-José Nat 's lover and Jacques Charrier 's rival in André Cayatte 's two-part film My Days with Pierre - My Nights with Jacqueline . Cayatte shows the failure of a marriage in two films from two perspectives. Subor stars alongside Dita Parlo in the Pushkin film adaptation of The Queen of Spades .

Hollywood follows in Clive Donner 's What's New, Pussy? he has a supporting role as a jealous lover. Then Alfred Hitchcock gives him the role of François Picard in Topaz in 1968 . As the film husband of the agent's daughter Michèle Picard ( Claude Jade ), initially on a happy honeymoon in New York, his father-in-law André Devereaux ( Frederick Stafford ) later put him on to unmask the "Topas" agent ring. Journalist François is able to unmask NATO man Henri Jarré ( Philippe Noiret ). A little later, Michèle and her father rush there and discover a corpse in the courtyard... Contrary to Leon Uris ' novel , Hitchcock did not let François Picard die. He later hurries, shot and only slightly injured in the arms of his wife (François to Michèle: I've been shot...just a little. ) At the same time as "Topas" play Claude Jade and Michel Subor in the family saga Mauregard by Claude de Givray . In the years that followed, Subor increasingly directed television films in which he played the leading roles. In Fred Zinnemann 's The Jackal , he makes an early cameo appearance as an OAS terrorist in the car, a nod to his role as "The Little Soldier".

In the cinema of the 1970s, he had major supporting roles, such as in Jean-Louis Bertuccelli's films Dr. medical Françoise Gailland and Un tueur, un flic, ainsi soit-il... . Bertucelli also cast him for Police Commissioner in Stress in 1984 . Michel Subor's career is solid, acting for television and cinema. On German television he played the Zwanzigeisen in Rainer Wolffhardt 's Der Mann im Salz (1989) and in Tatort alongside Manfred Krug , Charles Brauer and Knut Hinz in the episode Finale am Rothenbaum (1991). Subor also continued to film in English-language series, such as Yuri opposite Simon MacCorkindale in the On Your Own initiative Trigger Finger (1992).

His big career comeback brings him Claire Denis 's homoerotic soldier film The Foreign Legionnaire , which is based on Herman Melville 's Billy Budd . Subor, who plays the commander around whom there are two rivals ( Grégoire Colin , Denis Lavant ), is called Bruno Forestier here, as in "The Little Soldier". The film is a post-colonial reference to Nouvelle Vague Algerian War films and a male musical (Claire Denis). While this is still about suppressed homosexuality and jealousy among men, Subor then shoots Andrzej Zulawski 's The Loyalty of Women . Here he plays the intrusive media mogul Rupert MacRoi, who hassles the heroine. Philippe Garrel 's Sauvage innocence follows in another Claire Denis film that focuses on Subor: The Enemy in My Heart (2004). In the mystical-artificial film, Subor plays a man who has to face a heart transplant and begins a journey into his own past. Claire Denis cast him again in 2009's White Material and 2013 's Les Salauds . After the short film Vuguons (2017), he starred in the six-part TV series Aux animaux la guerre (2018).

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  1. ↑ Mort de Michel Subor: le "Petit soldat" rend les armes
personal data
SURNAME Subor, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
BIRTH DATE February 2, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 2022