Nicole Hiss
Birthday: Born in in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Commandant X
Character: Elisabeth Grenier
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Movie Credits
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
Character:
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1930s India, is here repurposed with all new cinematography. As we hear all the dialogue of a bygone movie, we travel visually through images of absence and decay, bereft of life. It's the ghost of a film, and a further commentary on colonialism....
Destroy, She Said
Character: Alissa
In a secluded hotel circumscribed by a dense forest Max and Alissa Thor meet Stein and Elisabeth. Max, a professor of future history and an aspiring author, is immediately attracted to the brooding wife of industrialist Bernard Alione, Elisabeth, who is recovering from a miscarriage. Stein, a German Jew and potential writer, is infatuated by Alissa, Max's young wife and former student. During their sojourn the guests' identities gradually meld....
Tea in the Harem
Character: Solange
The story of two youths – one Algerian, one French – who become juvenile delinquents in a Paris suburb....
India Song
Character: Voix Intemporelle (voice)
Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the boredom in her life....
Civil Wars in France
Character: Young woman (segment "Premier empire")
Three episodes from the history of socialism: Babeuf, whose virulent discourse is a radical assessment of the bourgeois revolution of 1789 (Vincent Nordon episode); the legend of Napoleon I, or the formation of the state as it still dominates today (François Barat episode); and the carnage of the Paris Commune, which official history strives to repress and forget (Joël Farges episode). What does it mean to make a historical film today? It means illuminating the present in the light of the past, ...
Dark Night, Calcutta
Character:
Marin Karmitz's avant-garde short film is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case of writer's block....
Woman of the Ganges
Character: Another woman / Narrator (voice)
A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case......