Peter Kassovitz

Directing

Peter Kassovitz

Born 1938-11-17 · Budapest, Hungary

Peter Kassovitz (born November 17, 1938) is a French film director and scriptwriter. He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He left the country at the time of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He is the father of film director Mathieu Kassovitz. He directed the film Jakob the Liar, starring Robin Williams in 1999. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Kassovitz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Jakob the Liar poster
6.7

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.

Jakob the Liar

1999

Jakob the Liar poster
6.7

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.

Jakob the Liar

1999

Drôles d'oiseaux poster
9.0

The fire at the supermarket is a boon for a scrap dealer who has just killed his wife. According to Commissioner Voitot, the victim could be one of the unidentified bodies. But here is a landscaper claims that his wife has also disappeared.

Drôles d'oiseaux

1993

Vasarely poster
NR

In 1960, Xenakis composed the music NEG-ALE for P. Kassovitz's "Vasarely", an abstract film on the artwork of Op-Art master Victor Vasarely.

Vasarely

1960

Steinberg poster
NR

A long tracking shot through the works of the great Saul Steinberg. His world of signs is beautifully revealed: a world of subtlety and cleverness, bitter humour and soft cruelty.

Steinberg

1965

Port-au-Prince, dimanche 4 janvier poster
5.5

January 4, 2004, Haiti. Celebration of the bicentennial of the declaration of independence. For months, students and the general public have been protesting against the dictatorship of the "Prophet," President Aristide. Lucien, a philosophy student convinced of the success of the march toward democracy, is diametrically opposed to his younger brother Little Joe, a thug recruited by the Chimères to suppress the student march. This day will seal the fate of the two brothers.

Port-au-Prince, dimanche 4 janvier

2015

Port-au-Prince, dimanche 4 janvier poster
5.5

January 4, 2004, Haiti. Celebration of the bicentennial of the declaration of independence. For months, students and the general public have been protesting against the dictatorship of the "Prophet," President Aristide. Lucien, a philosophy student convinced of the success of the march toward democracy, is diametrically opposed to his younger brother Little Joe, a thug recruited by the Chimères to suppress the student march. This day will seal the fate of the two brothers.

Port-au-Prince, dimanche 4 janvier

2015

L'Énigme blanche poster
5.8

Like every year, five old friends come together in a chalet in the middle of a Canadian snow desert. Henri, his wife Apolline, brother-in-law Maxence, Jean and Paul are waiting for cozy evenings with board games and good food - a typical ski holiday. But on the first day Henri announces that he knows about the affair between Apolline and Jean. An oppressive mood spreads in the secluded hut until the spiral of jealousy and sadism kills one from its midst.

L'Énigme blanche

1985

Make Room for Tomorrow poster
4.5

Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and practical jokes, Ben's house (shifting dangerously on its foundation), and the twentieth-century struggles of the Jews, the film explores their relationships and Isaac's aging.

Make Room for Tomorrow

1979

Make Room for Tomorrow poster
4.5

Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and practical jokes, Ben's house (shifting dangerously on its foundation), and the twentieth-century struggles of the Jews, the film explores their relationships and Isaac's aging.

Make Room for Tomorrow

1979

Bonjour Tristesse poster
4.6

Cécile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. Anne, a mature and cultured friend of Raymond's late wife, arrives at Raymond's villa for a visit.

Bonjour Tristesse

1995

La rançon du chien poster
9.0

A young police inspector dreams of being accepted by a wealthy bourgeois couple.

La rançon du chien

1996

La rançon du chien poster
9.0

A young police inspector dreams of being accepted by a wealthy bourgeois couple.

La rançon du chien

1996

No artwork available
NR

A César award nominated short feature.

Jeudi 7 avril

1978

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Si c'est ça la famille

2004

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Si c'est ça la famille

2004

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

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