well look. it's technology innovation all these developments around russia we've. covered. spotlight the interview. today my guest on the show is. people say that truly gifted person does anything with great talent well this is why for example musicians tend to be great producers photographers start staging movies actors start writing stories today the interview is unique he started as a photographer photographer 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 now with and then obvious personal photographs so once again he's a photographer is all 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 harass became an elite celebrity in both hollywood and his native europe starring alongside like soft catherine deneuve isabella jeannie and. this is referred to as one of the fifty most beautiful people. in the world 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. you having 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. through art gallery and all of those which is very close it's beautiful it's 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 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 it was like fifteen years ago and from that day i got hooked and i'm always happy to come back to promote movies and now to show my photographer work. back in nineteen eighty seven. 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. for me it was a it was a major major thing i think i went the other day to museum of those things. and i i thanked him because it's because of checkoff that i became an actor after reading the novels and the theatre and. books which served. 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 i decided to become an actor and yes and so the release of the russian third that really give me the input you know. check our 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 was a major way to teach acting and planes take off it's something you have to do it one day in your life all those great authors also you know from the one you know all the great authors are a great influence 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 mentioned 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 epic alex yeah like an action which i guess you are in need to 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 life is 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 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 just to enrich myself with the great experiences and here the never medium it's always like a strong there's 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 you don't get this kind of response in the west it's move mostly for the russian public so so so what is it happening is that sad for you that you mean you will do something and hollywood it goes international these are the russian it stays here it wasn't like that before it wasn't like that before because the cinema the russians you know i was so great i mean the history of the russians and so great you bet so many great directors in films of the world the cinema but they were great films. and 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 you a good example of a close up look at it was to i guess russian and.

yes. telling stories about the specific suspiciously things here but if you if you find stories like. that with some of his movies that they can travel in there 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 no time. if it's never going to be renewed is going to this is like winning the war the exactly and the and you doing. and it and it works and so that's something else

that i really enjoy. ok 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 in this and it brings me a lot of pleasure and i just love it to 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 a photo is like a good wine and reached his health through time is it sure that you made the whole series of pictures of russian people yeah who are those people most of it you know

from stuff atenco from adam and canyon and great other actors some of them all on here. you know into 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 very 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 of 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 face as you prefer young faces are old faces i did both you know i like 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 he's made.

pleasure and there is a dimension that i've read like you said you said you said like. i didn't speak in my pictures but we do make money on it or it's really like a hobby oh whatever so 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 good work for papers for magazines this is all the work that i do that. i've been working at it from photos that you have he want to hear with you can call up bruni and bono that i did you know and some other people you know that was for made for magazines but most of the work that i've here are photos that i organize 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 this

the reason which made you write your own scripts. no i think i. became a director because i had that need to need to tell stories in oh i love people and i love telling stories that are i think important to be told i have a project that i'm working on right now and i think it's 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 want want want to have action movies but there is in the history you have so many fantastic stories and when there will be. and. this need for telling stories this is what actually made you made you take a. writing the stories to self as that. yeah yeah it's beyond my control i it's

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 and but directing a movie is something that that i need to do and i 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 very sorry and i was suited next year as it takes to know all the 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 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 patients. being a photographer is something that you can provoke and you just just have to do it you know it's like writing you know so we need patients from our audience right now because we'll take a short break and continue this interview with a wince and puranas in less than a minute stay with us. the

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a speed of more than two hundred kilometers. the step in the launch. welcome back to spotlight album and of and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is vince and her as world famous photographer and actor script writer and film director. well we've been talking about your numerous activities that you do well one of your activities in there now

is playing in the french television series called the paris criminal investigation just like i was like two years ago in fact i stopped like four years ago you start with but this show is still on no it's done with you that sometimes it comes back oh well it's a serious yeah yeah well what's your opinion about about these television television series because some people say that that that they're taking over the big time movies i mean traditional movies well it shows that there's 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 that. well the

one 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 go into a dark room and watch a movie being screened on the wall you know 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 because i got bored and some people say well 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 say 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's like so many great series you know six of this is. in the city but some in so many others in iowa desperate

housewives for you know you have like. i mean i like tons of it that i've seen and i think that they are 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 twenty hours of movies with the same characters 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 as one i got hooked and you know and so 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 a true or or. you still keep your keep you know i'm

a mixture of my father's finest my mom. 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 thought pretty swiss now that i live in france that i've been like a living also i mean london york i feel sometimes french and all i have to say and sometimes i feel the swiss again and sometimes spanish i'm a mixture i'm a european mixture so you know like a cosmopolitan 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 the culture i think we're very gifted to have like so many. museums a cinema and movies being made and the theatre plays and all those things you know it's really amazing the suppose you get out of it unsettled by me getting to like

mentally like my house the roses and i mean grandchildren and so on dogs what comes 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. 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 very close you know the old my family we're all going to newport. 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 for sure and 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 need for also prison reprieve that we're presenting but butterfly kisses first movie in which i'm playing with my two daughters playing together with you. have been to the official know the none of the kids you know on but the teens you know teenagers and and they're just amazing i mean they're really made for that you know a. working through in family 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 mots with. you and i we're going to we're going to be playing together in a comedy so this is something that's so moving forward and. really contributes to

family life what about work is it is it easy to make a movie when it's directed by your 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 you always want to give more and so far we're doing well and we 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 and 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 old real together you know what's difficult is like right no i mean i've been shooting a movie. in 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 follow me you know. this year you've been playing in a new movie by alexander kind of the. world about it yeah yeah it's based on the bestselling book and dedicated to the history of algeria and this film he shot in tunisia 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 there was 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 just seen it shipped and you know like the during a revolution and then some people are taking advantage of that revolution 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 it was an experience people were really nice really open they really want to have change but it's i think is going to take a few generations this story you told me bad was it we're talking about this story called this believes 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 not 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. two to two to

germany chamberlain did have something to do with the fact that your mother was german the photos of course with not and also i think it's those crossing times for me also interesting and i'm very passionate with. time you know and would it be to be a german during the second world war on the denies it's from those people that we never talk really about fought against the nazism even if they were doing 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 ordinary people on to be respected you know says are you doing you doing a movie about the twenty's in italy that you're moving to the right now i'm with mussolini very sinister. but it's really it's also telling the story of my family i did some research on my my mom and my father's side and that book really

represents something that you know my my family went through ok and then some thank you thank you very much mr pleasure for being with us and just to remind that my guest today was. as an actor photographer director and script they have to come to rue art gallery for my work you should seize works i've seen some of them right here 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 and think we shouldn't. just drop it at. the dot are you and let's keep the spotlight interactive we'll be back with more first and comments on what's going on outside rush until then r.t. and take care thank you thank you thank you very much.

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