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Rebellious. Passionate. Gifted. Beautiful. Béatrice Dalle could be a mix of some artist from many centuries ago and a rock star. Discovered in Betty Blue (1986), Dalle has become a sex symbol and a respected performer. Known for her problems with justice, her relationships with rapper JoeyStarr and her explicit talking, Béatrice Dalle is anyway starring in many independent works of art such as La belle histoire (1992) ("The beautiful story") by Claude Lelouch, Six Days, Six Nights (1994) ("Six days, six nights") alongside Anne Parillaud, Seventeen Times Cécile Cassard (2002) ("17 times Cecile Cassard") with Romain Duris or Trouble Every Day (2001) with Vincent Gallo.

Pierre Brice was born on 6 February 1929 in Brest, France. After enlisting as volunteer to the French Army and fighting in Indochina, he attended acting lessons and got a first small role in Ça va barder (1955). In 1962, the German producer Horst Wendlandt searched for an actor who should play the Native American chief Winnetou on a Western movie adapted from novels by Karl May and got to know Brice at the Berlin Film Festival. He got the role and portrayed "Winnetou" in ten more movies with his co-star Lex Barker as "Old Shatterhand". These very successful productions made him a superstar in Germany, winning several awards such as Bambi or the Golden Otto of teenager magazine "Bravo". Although appearing on countless other movies and TV shows, he will always be best remembered as "Winnetou", whom he also played at the Bad Segeberg open air theater.

Born in Brest, France, in 1922, Alain Robbe-Grillet initially studied mathematics and biology. He graduated from the Paris-based Institut National Agronomique (National Institute of Agronomy) in 1945 and embarked on a career of scientific research in the tropics and in France. Then at age 30 he decided to change the direction of his career and concentrate on the thorny problem of literature. His novels were at first panned by the fashionable critics of the time, but he succeeded in winning (along with such now famous friends as Samuel Beckett, Nathalie Sarraute, Claude Simon and Marguerite Duras) worldwide recognition and wide readership for the last literary movement in France known as "Le Nouveau Roman". or "New Novel". His books have been translated in some 30 languages and include "Le Voyeur: (1955), "La jalousie" (1965), "La maison de rendez-vous" (1965), "Project pour une révolution à New York e Djinn" (1981), "Le miroir qui revient" (1985) and "Les Derniers jours de Corinth" (1994). At 40 he emabarked on a parallel career as screenwriter and film director, venturing once again into unorthodox narrative structures. With Alain Resnais he won the "Golden Lion" in Venice in 1961 for Last Year at Marienbad (1961) ("Last Year at Marienbad") and won the Louis Delluc Prize two years later for L'Immortelle (1963), the first film which he wrote and directed himself. This was followed by Trans-Europ-Express (1966), The Man Who Lies (1968) ("The Man who Lies"), Eden and After (1970) ("Eden and Afterwards"), Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974) ("The Slow Slidings of Pleasure"), Playing with Fire (1975) ("Playing with Fire"), )La belle captive (1983)_ ("The Beautiful Captive") and Un bruit qui rend fou (1995) ("The Blue Villa"). He lives in seclusion in the countryside in Normandy, where he tends to his collection of cacti. He continues to travel the world, and to teach modern literature and film to graduate students in several American universities.

Fathia Youssouf was born on 1 August 2006 in Brest, France. She is an actress, known for Cuties (2020), 111 and Rencontres de cinéma (2007).

Gaëlle Legrand was born on 15 July 1961 in Brest, Finistère, France. She is an actress, known for Pile ou face (1980), Zone rouge (1986) and Flickan vid stenbänken (1989).

Yann Tiersen was born on 23 June 1970 in Brest, Finistère, France. He is a composer and writer, known for Amélie (2001), Good Bye Lenin! (2003) and Inescapable (2012).

Martin Provost was born on 13 May 1957 in Brest, Finistère, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Seraphine (2008), Le ventre de Juliette (2003) and Violette (2013).

Mathieu Spinosi was born on 6 June 1990 in Brest, Finistère, France. He is an actor, known for Summer Nights (2014), The Visitors: Bastille Day (2016) and Clem (2010).

Yvan Le Bolloc'h was born on 20 December 1961 in Brest, Finistère, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Caméra café (2001), Espace détente (2005) and Le séminaire Caméra Café (2009).

Damien Manivel was born in 1981 in Brest, France. He is a director and writer, known for The Night I Swam (2017), Les enfants d'Isadora (2019) and A Young Poet (2014).

Aliaksei Paluyan, a film director and writer, was born 1989 in Baranovichi in the Republic of Belarus. In 2012 he moved to Germany and studied film and television directing at the Kunsthochschule Kassel (Academy for the arts). He has become known to audiences as a director of fiction short films and documentaries that have been presented at festivals worldwide. With his unique artistic signature, Aliaksei Paluyan has achieved to transform highly personal stories from his homeland into themes of universal meaning and relevance. In 2019 his short fiction drama "Lake of Happiness" premiered in Clermont-Ferrand, won a numerous awards at international festivals, was a candidate for European Short Film at the 33rd European Film Awards in 2020 and also longlisted for the Oscars 2021. Aliaksei's documentary film debut "Courage" had its world premiere at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival.

Nina Andrycz was born on 11 November 1912 in Brzesc, Poland, Russian Empire [now Brest, Belarus]. She was an actress, known for Uczta Baltazara (1954), Horror w Wesolych Bagniskach (1995) and And a Warm Heart (2008). She was married to Józef Cyrankiewicz. She died on 31 January 2014 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.

Composer ("The Emperor Jones") and pianist, educated at the Vienna Conservatory (Master Class), and a student of F. E. Koch. He came to the USA in 1885 and made his debut as pianist with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Berlin in 1912. From there and through 1919 he continued giving concert tours throughout Europe and the USA. Between 1931 and 1933 he was chairman of the composition department at the Chicago Musical College. His leadership positions included the presidency of the International Society of Contemporary Music, and he was a co-founder of the League of Composers and a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Alexander Ramati was born on 20 December 1921 in Brzesc, Poleskie, Poland [now Brest, Belarus]. He was a writer and producer, known for Sands of Beersheba (1964), And the Violins Stopped Playing (1988) and Beyond the Mountains (1967). He was married to Didi Ramati. He died on 18 February 2006 in Montreux, Switzerland.

Christian Cloarec was born on 31 October 1957 in Brest, Finistère, France. He is an actor, known for Joan of Arc, the Power and the Innocence (1989), Un ami parfait (2006) and Boy Meets Girl (1984).

Gonzalo Higuaín was born on 10 December 1987 in Brest, Finistère, France. He is an actor, known for Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis (2011), Winner Stays (2014) and LaLiga (1929). He has been married to Lara Wechsler since January 2018. They have one child.

Illarion Nikolaevich Pevtsov was born on December 7, 1879, in Antopol, Brest province, Russian Empire (now Belarus). His father, named Nikolai Pevtsov, was a government clerk. Young Pevtsov studied and graduated from Panevezhys College in 1899, then worked as a clerk in Vilno. At that time Pevtsov made his stage debut with the Vilno Drama troupe in a production of 'Zhenitba' (Marriage) by Nikolay Gogol.

From 1899-1902 he studied under Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Drama School at Moscow Philharmonic Society. From 1902-1906 he worked with Vsevolod Meyerhold at the "New Drama Theatre" in Moscow. Then he organized his own troupe and performed in many Russian cities. Pevtsov had also a stellar career as a stage actor. From 1922-1925 he worked with Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Art Theatre. From 1925-1934 he was a permanent member of the troupe of the Pushkin Drama Theatre in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). There his stage partners were such remarkable actors as Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Nikolay Cherkasov, Yuri Yuryev, Boris Babochkin, Nikolai Simonov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Konstantin Skorobogatov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Leonid Vivyen, Vladimir Chestnokov, and other notable Russian actors.

Pevtsov enjoyed a career in silent films. His best known film role is in 'Chapaev' (1934), where his partner was Boris Babochkin. Pevtsov taught acting classes in St. Petersburg theatre of Komissarzhevskaya and in Moscow Art Theatre. He died on October 25, 1934, and was laid to rest in Tikhvinskoe Cemetery of Aleksander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Jerzy Lipman was born on 10 April 1922 in Brzesc, Poleskie, Poland [now Brest, Belarus]. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Das falsche Gewicht (1971), Knife in the Water (1962) and Gangsterzy i filantropi (1963). He died on 10 November 1983 in London, England, UK.

Yitzhak Shamir was born on 22 October 1915 in Ruzhany, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire [now Brest Oblast, Belarus]. He was married to Shulamit Levy. He died on 30 June 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Menachem Begin was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the creation of the state of Israel, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944, against the British mandatory government, which was opposed by the Jewish Agency. As head of the Irgun, he targeted the British in Palestine. Later, the Irgun fought the Arabs during the 1947-48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and its chief Begin was also noted as "leader of the notorious terrorist organization" by the British government and banned from entering the United Kingdom.

Elena Vorobey was born on 5 June 1967 in Brest, Belorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. She is an actress and writer, known for Zolotoy klyuchik (2009), Streets of Broken Lights (1998) and Strasti po Anzhelike (1993).

Andrée Lionel was born on 2 December 1894 in Brest, Finistère, France. She was an actress, known for L'enfant roi (1923), Les mystères de Paris (1922) and L'heure tragique (1916). She died on 26 March 1996 in Ay-Champagne, Marne, France.

Bronia Clair was born on 8 August 1906 in Brest, Belarus. She was an actress and writer, known for La galerie des monstres (1924), Le voyage imaginaire (1926) and Au théâtre ce soir (1966). She was married to René Clair. She died in 2004 in Paris, France.

Mikhail Ptashuk was born on 28 January 1943 in Fedyuki, Brest Oblast, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. He was a director and actor, known for V avguste 44-go (2001), The Burning Land (2003) and Kooperativ Politbyuro ili budet dolgim proshchanie (1992). He died on 26 April 2002 in Moscow, Russia.

Serge Le Borgne was born on 16 November 1971 in Brest, Finistère, France. He is an actor, known for Roméo & Juliette: De la haine à l'amour (2002), Stars 80 (2012) and La grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (2004).