Feodor Atkine

Born in France to a father of Russian origin, Féodor Atkine spent his childhood in Latin America before returning to France and taking drama shorts with Jean-Laurent Cochet. Dancer, mime and actor, he traveled theaters around the world before making his first film appearance in Jean-Francois Bizot's La Route in 1972.

His career took on an international dimension in the 1970s, during which he went on to shoot American films with Woody Allen (Guerre et amour, 1974) or Sydney Pollack (Bobby Deerfield, 1977), Italians with Gillo Pontecorvo (Operation Ogre, 1979), and Spanish with José Juan Bigas Luna (Lola, 1985) or Carlos Saura (El Dorado, 1987). Feodor Atkine is at the same time involved in auteur films, particularly with Eric Rohmer (Le Beau Mariage, 1981; Pauline a la plage, 1982), but also in popular comedies (Les Sous-doués by Claude Zidi, 1980) and detective stories (The Police War by Robin Davis, 1979; Trois hommes à abattre by Jacques Deray, 1980), showing to what extent the actor shows great diversity in his choices.

His eclecticism was not denied thereafter, the actor multiplying his collaborations with Andrzej Zulawski (La Note Bleue, 1990), Jean-Pierre Mocky (Ville à vente, 1991), Raoul Ruiz (Trois vies et une single mort, 1995 , Ce jour-là, 2002), Pedro Almodovar (Stiletto Heels, 1991), mostly for supporting roles. This is still the case in the American productions Ronin (1998) and Vatel (1999), Féodor Atkine even briefly appearing as Roxane's father in Oliver Stone's Alexandre (2005). The early 2000s saw him put his vocal qualities to good use, as he lent his grave tone to the god Horus of Immortal (ad vitam) (2002), to characters from animated films (La Légende du Cid, Les 3 kings, 2003), as well as

Very active on television in recent years, we can see him in many TV films such as Louis XV, le soleil noir (2009), Le Coeur du Subject (id.), 1, 2, 3 Thieves, Le Tombeau d'Hélios ( 2011) or Toussaint Louverture (2012). That same year 2012, he made a strong comeback to cinema, always through outstanding supporting roles, with four very different productions (both from a thematic and technical point of view), namely the drama La Mémoire in the flesh, the urban thriller In the eyes of all, the popular comedy, and finally the horror film World War Z, in which he gives the answer to a certain Brad Pitt ...