people say that a truly gifted person does anything with great talent well this is why for example musicians turned to be great producers photographers start staging movies actors start writing stories today the interview is unique he started as a photographer. or for then he started acting and turned out to be a great actor he started telling stories writing scripts and finally he's shooting his own movies as a director but he's in moscow now with and then obvious personal photographs so once again he's a photographer is all in the multi-talented actor photographer director and script writer paris today on spotlight. creative as a young servant some paradis had his first brush with fame at school as an actor

and director of his own shows he dreamed of being a painter or photographer and grew up to combine all these talents and dreams the rest became an elite celebrity in both hollywood and his native europe starring alongside like soft catherine deneuve isabella genie and. is referred to as one of the fifty most beautiful people in the world and the world's sexiest french speaker. thank you very much for being with us on the show it's great fun to have you thank you thank you well. first of all congratulations for. being here this is this is the first exhibition of your works in moscow should be nervous a little nervous i just discovered the wonderful place to. gather in those which is very close it's beautiful. so well placed and the photos are really well

you know some very well so far it's going pretty well as good as it was because of the champagne. exactly listen you are quite a frequent guest in russia yes what attracts you here in this country i guess the energy. the people. you know as i've been here i've been coming here for twenty years you know i started with making a movie with. a few years ago and i was like fifteen years ago and from that day i got hooked and i'm always happy to come back to promote movies and. photographer work. back in nineteen eighty seven mistaking even before doing that little given film you've played in check of split thomas on stage what what was the role of russian culture russian theatre. as an artist for me it was

a it was a major major thing i think i went to the other day to the museum of those things. and i i think him because it's because of takeoff that i became an actor after reading the novels and the theatre and. books which gave me the you know the sense of what was being an actor and that from that day i decided i was fifteen years old and from that day i decided to become an actor and yes and so the release of russian third that really gave me the inputs you know you know. especially maybe. for the americans at least stanislav the people who influence the world stage greatly well that was long ago do you think that today there still is something about the russian school that is important. for the west i hope so i hope in see it or. in the world of actors for

sure i mean this is because this is this was a this it was a major way to teach acting and plain checkoff it's something you have to do it one day in your life. all those great authors also you know from those you know all the great authors are a great influence on what we like on parts on the things that we want to tell and i think the synthesize the relationship between human beings so well that. it's so great to play. you mention this little guy in the film that you played and then you also took part in the movie in two thousand and seven called the code of the. connection with i guess you are in need really hollywood and many other parts in the. world of the world but what makes you. come to russia and take part

in these russian projects because i because i like it you know i feel that i feel so great here and i love working in russia it's different it's new and as i said you know i think what i'm what i'm looking for here is some kind of truth and some kind of energy that i miss and that i'd like you know and i like the every time i was making and making a movie hero doing something here i always came back and reached and that's what i'm looking for you know is to reach myself with a great experiences and here never medium it's always like this throne is always the extremes you know when you when you come to russia compared to france it is a bit when you do a russian the the you don't get this kind of response in the west it's moved mostly for the russian public so so so what is it happening is that side feel like me will do something and hollywood it goes. it stays here it wasn't like that before it wasn't like that before because the cinema there. you know it's so great i mean the

history of the russian city made so great you've been so many great directors in films the world the cinema but there were great films. i will come back but but but the majority of the russian films they stay in russia mostly what do you think is the reason because of language because there are two russian like to give it a day example of a close up look and it was. i guess russian and. yes . telling stories about the suspects accused of soliciting things here but if you if you find stories like. that with some of his movies that they think they can travel a minute you have to just to find stories that are you know touching the people outside you know so universal stories you know and it happens and then it will happen again i'm sure i'm sure but i do miss the great russian cinema from your experience working in russia working

a bit on stage or camera isn't much different from working in in the movies in the united states and europe well there is always something that i call the russian miracle in oil you don't know how it works but we'll do it in oh. it's never going to be renewed is going to this is like winning the war and exactly and and you do it and it and it works and so that's something else that i really enjoy. ok as before before studying studying dramatic art and finally becoming an actor you studied photography today is the first day of your exhibit. how important today is photography for you oh i think it's i think it's essential you know it's something that i've been doing for many many years but four years ago i started to really capitalized take time and energy and this and it brings me. that of pleasure and i just love it i have

a passion for that you know i love i love taking photos of people you know and see what what would they can give you know there's always something magical about a photo and also the way that the photo travels through time you know i think of photos like a good like wine and reached his health through time is the truth is that you made the whole series of pictures of russian people yeah who are those people most of it you know from stuff i think oh from adam and canyon and great other actors some of them all i hear. you went to the both sides to take photos from the dancers when they were rehearsing i love dancing and i think dancing and photo goes really well together so this is this was part of a big submission in it was between vladivostok and paris so it was like an exchange of of in fact the theme was the storytellers you know are there all the people that you have here all people i think stories and actors dances people that we don't

know when you do people do you face as you prefer young faces or old faces i both know i like a young face and an old face together you know like the clown i have my clone here which is dex which was a very famous bill ask a french actor and now he's the big became a clown is eighty five years old and just his face three clown makeup gives me a lot of pleasure and there is a dimension that i've read like you said you said you said like. i mean speaking the pictures but me do you make money on it or it's really like a hobby oh whatever small part of your profession it's becoming professional you know it. became a pressure in fact i started as a photographer before being an actor i did at school is photography i do but it was work for papers and magazines this is all the work that i do that. i've been working and it's from photos that you know he want to hear with you. call of duty

and bono that i did you know and some other people you know that it was for made for magazines but most of the work that i have here photos that i organized myself . you also started writing scripts for for movies well i talked to a couple of people in the pictures and they and they said that it's a it's a real. period of crisis then no real story is the reason which made you write your own scripts. no i think i. became a director because i had that needed need to tell stories in oh i love people and i love reading stories that are i think important to be told i have a project that i'm working on right now and i think is a very important story that i have to be told which tells a lot of about the german people especially during the second world war i think it's a story that never was never been told and i think there is

a lot of stories that are never been told i think in russia you have like a so many great stories that should be told you know unfortunately right now in russia people won't want to have action movies but there is in the history you have so many fantastic stories and there will be. and. this need for telling stories this is what actually made you made you take on writing the story is just. you know. it's beyond my control something that came into my life and i had to do it i did stage work as a director and i did wrote a play this year and the directing the movie is something that that i need to do have stories that i really have to i'm working on a story right now it's been five years that i've been working the story and that we should have next year as it takes a new more time so what that's what i like about photos you know the photos you have the idea and you work on it and you're doing it you know you don't have to wait so long you know. making movies are something that could be very heavy and you

have to be extremely patient. being a photographer is something that. you just have to do it you know it's like writing so we. pay shows from our audience right now because we'll take a short break and continue this interview with. stay with. the close up she has been to. plays to the most vicious football club in the world . goes to the far east where the timber industry attracts the legendary siberian tigers where the native community loses its way in the modern world. and where the country's mineral

wealth starts its way across the ocean. to the. family. community which was an upscale it was just like you know society. they started showing up what happened was my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of. most illegal labor legally. morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our bills and we have to do and that's just the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go. here's one of them to the united states. and they run down my property and about this noise. mean that

cockroaches from coming over the wire is protecting the country i'm the kind of guy who doesn't mind good news pants dirty so i come out here you know we're all immigrants as well that we all here some somewhere else. this is our time to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we all want that one we free the we hope. to me the american dream is to live in peace and prosperity and freedom and a government under socialism is not a government of free. you . have very motivated out for us that are activists who are willing to fight for what they think is right for themselves but the fact is or to work for it. i.

think. we are. in a proper grounding and i think it's threatened by it's cutting off our. it's making goldmark recy. all but impossible. welcome back to spotlight album and of in just a reminder that my guest on the show today is vincent was a world famous photographer an actor scriptwriter and film director. well we've been talking about your numerous activities that you do well one of your activities now is playing in the french television series called the

paris criminal investigation just like i was like years ago in fact i stopped like four years ago you started with the show still i don't know if it's done sometimes it comes back oh well it's a series yeah yeah what's your opinion about about these television television series because some people say that. that they're taking over the big time movie set i mean traditional movies well it shows that there is a lot of stories to be told you know and and i think it's like a. like a thick book you know you're sometimes you like to spend time with the characters and i think the best today are the americans that's for sure that's there they are the ones that are the doing the best series and far away. head of the french people

and other people so yes there is series that i've read like but i'm a sinner i guy you know i. need movies and i need to step out of my chair and move go into a dark room and watch a movie being screened on the wall in a way that's something that i. that i need and that's part of me and i did i did this series on television but i. realized that i was a made for that it was i got bored and some people say well me i also get bored because i don't have time to to get to get to sit in front of a television set every day at the same time. but some people see in terms of stories in terms of dialogues in terms of many things budgets television series are becoming better than movies isn't true where there is like so many great series you know six of this is. in the city but some in so many others and you know a desperate housewife or you know you have like. i mean tons of it

that i that i've seen and i think that they're really great you know so. yeah i think people want wants to have more time with the characters they want to spend more time you know what a movie or movies like an hour and a half two hours that they have like a twenty hours of movies of the same character as if they were living with them and sharing what the experience are and i think what people need you know. personally i don't have the time to do that my wife loves the series so when she was one i got hooked and you know i saw this is something it's a phenomenon it's a phenomenon you are swiss but. people say according to what i read that you will be here you are really. more french now than swiss is it true or or you still keep your and keep you know i'm a mixture of my father's finest my mom history i was born in switzerland you know

and i was first generation of immigrants you know and switzerland so i always felt spanish and german in a way no i never felt pretty swiss now that i live in france and i've been like living also in london the standard is new york i feel sometimes french no i have to save some time. i feel the swiss again and sometimes spanish i'm a mixture i'm a european mixture so you know like a cousin you know exactly exactly so i feel good when i'm traveling in oh and i need to travel i need to get out of my society you know where i live but it's true that i i really appreciate in france there is a culture i think very very gifted that you have like so many. museums a cinema and movies being made and the theater plays and and all those things you know it's really amazing the suppose you get out unsettled by me getting to like mentally like my house the roses and i mean and so on dogs what

country would you choose to spend the rest of your life i think it would true friends. i don't i don't think so and what part of france. you know i have a house not far from paris and i'm very happy there so i you know i'm not looking for anything else i would love to go back to america for a while and it's something new york you know i love new york but i think i think i kind of so that kind of french sense that you're becoming more and more friends are ok now you've been lately acting in movies directed by your wife yeah. well. why did she did choose to waste some people never worked together with me why did you decide to we're very close to a very close you know. my family we all want to newport make you close. you could sometimes but you know we have projects and we you know i really you know

encourage my wife to make her first feature i mean this is something she really had to do she does she does it she's a wonderful writer and she will you know in few years people all going to recognize her work as a writer she's a fantastic writer preparing the second movie right now here with your new for also prison represent me presenting by. but it's like his first movie in which i'm playing with my two daughters playing together with you and you have been to professional know the none of the kids you know on but the teens you know teenagers and they're just amazing i mean they're really made for that you know and working through in family is something i really appreciate i think it's something very special that we do and right now we're preparing the next movie that we're going to be shooting in a modest with you and i we're going to we're going to be playing together in a comedy so this is something moving forward and i. really contributes to your

family life what about work is it is it easy to make a movie when it's directed by your own wife or are at it well. it's never easy and it's never easy but there is some kind of trust you know and when you when you work with trust you always want to give more and so far it's that we're doing well and it's not easy i'm not saying is easy is never easy to make a movie we went through a lot of things a lot of difficult things especially on the financing but all the artistic. things that we went through all were just great speaking about easy is it easy for you here today in the given circumstances to distinguish your family life for a fresh new life when your daughters your fellow actors your wife is your director of that we all real together you know what's difficult is like right no i mean i've been shooting a movie in italy been away for two months so i've been missing my kids a lot and it has been very difficult for me but so i prefer to be to have them

close to me than fall you know. this year you've been playing in a new movie by alexander or kind of the. world about it yeah it's based on the bestselling book and dedicated to the history. algeria and this film he shot in tunisia and in a country where the revolution where he actually was shooting during those revolution events tell us how was it it was strange because people were the father to the revolution but still nothing was really i mean that we're still expecting to see what's what will happen next you know and and so. it's a little frightening i mean for them because they've been through so many things in a way that you see in a cheap and you know like the during a revolution and then some people are taking advantage of that of evolution and they just impose themselves against the will of the people so this is something

that that's very scary and i really hope that they will find a way to get out of that you know. people were really nice really open they really want to have change but i think it's going to take a few generations this story you told me a bad was it we're talking about this story called this don't believe that yeah when we see it well i was supposed to shoot that movie this year and we postponed it because of the success of the book which is called alone in berlin. and it's just the book has been released in america and in england three years ago and became such a big success that we decided to the to do it in german but to do it in english so we had to postpone the movie for one year and right now i'm preparing the movie for september. next year why did you decide to dedicate a way to berlin did have something to do with the fact that your mother was flows

of course with that and also i think it's you know those crossing times for me also interesting and i'm very passionate with. time you know and i would it be to be a german during the second world war on the denies it and how those people that we never talk. fought against the nazism even if it were doing susa little things like that i think the story of this book is true and i think this this story has to be known you know known because those are ordinary people on to be respected you know so there are no you doing it doing a movie about the twenty's in italy then you're moving to go forward in the right knowing with mussolini very soon as there was really closely but it's really it's also telling the story of my family i did some research on my mom and my father's side and that book really represents something that you know my faith in my family went through ok and in some thank you thank you very much missed me

a pleasure for being with us and just a reminder that my guest today was vincent spare as an actor photographer director and script they have to come to rue art gallery to see my work you should seize works i've seen some of them right here in this gallery they're great trust me thanks thanks once again and that was spotlight if you have something to say if you have someone in mind to think we should mention the next time just drop the album at. the dot are you and let's keep spotlights entr'actes and we'll be back with more first on comments on what's going on outside rush until then stay a party and take care thank you thank you and think you're going to.

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christians are celebrating christmas. across russia holding all night vigils here in the russian capital. has already held a liturgy of christ the savior paid for. by big. allusion to the turbulent story of a modern day revolutionary living on the us mexico border. we had to earn it i mean we have to earn it every single day of our lives we have to get up every morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our bills and we have to do it and that's just the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go by the law so i figured ok like the great granddaughter of the neighborhood there you go yeah you know yes mark well we're all immigrant we're all immigrants as well.