Sami Frey
Sami Frey · Arts & Literature
Acteur de Bande à part et de César et Rosalie, figure du théâtre français et de la mémoire de la Shoah
13 octobre 1937
Paris (France)
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Origins and early life
Sami Frey was born Sami Frei in Paris on 13 October 1937, the son of Mendel Frei and Perla Wolf, Jews who had emigrated from Poland; his father died in 1939, before the Occupation.
Work and career
His mother was arrested in the round-ups of 1942, held at Drancy and deported to Auschwitz on 14 September of that year; she did not return. The child survived hidden in the countryside of the Eure-et-Loir under a false identity, and he has said that everything he did afterwards was done by someone who should not have been there. He came to the screen through Cléo de 5 à 7 in 1962, then Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à part in 1964, and became one of the defining French actors of his generation, opposite Yves Montand and Romy Schneider in Claude Sautet's César et Rosalie in 1972.
On stage he built a second body of work of great austerity, reciting Cioran and Proust alone before an audience, and pedalling a stationary bicycle through Georges Perec's Je me souviens. He has taken part in the recorded testimony of the deportation and lent his voice to readings of Jewish memory, including texts from the Warsaw ghetto and the Mémorial de la Shoah.
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Acteur de Bande à part et de César et Rosalie, figure du théâtre français et de la mémoire de la Shoah
Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Frey