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name: "Peter Kassovitz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-kassovitz"
fi1m_id: "peter-kassovitz"
imdb_id: "nm0440914"
tmdb_id: 18204
wikidata_id: "Q331007"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 November 1938"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T14:27:00.212315+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Peter Kassovitz

## Identity

Peter Kassovitz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-kassovitz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-kassovitz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0440914
- **TMDB ID:** 18204
- **Wikidata ID:** Q331007
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kassovitz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331007, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440914/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18204

Actor. Born 17 November 1938 in Budapest, Hungary.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 November 1938, Budapest, Hungary
- **Active:** 1962–1995
- **Average Fi1m score:** 88, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 86 (1), 1990s 90 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kassovitz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331007, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440914/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18204

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Vivre Sa Vie*](https://film.one/film/vivre-sa-vie.md) (86)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Peter Kassovitz is a French film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. Born in Budapest, Hungary, on 17 November 1938, he left the country after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and settled in Paris, where he worked as an assistant cameraman and cameraman before beginning to direct in 1959.

Kassovitz directed and co-wrote the 1999 Holocaust drama *Jakob the Liar*, starring Robin Williams. Early in his career he appeared as the young man in Jean-Luc Godard's *Vivre sa vie* (1962). He is the father of actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *La Haine* (1995), Fi1m 90, as Art Gallery Owner — [page](https://film.one/film/la-haine.md)
- *Vivre Sa Vie* (1962), Fi1m 86, as Young Man — [page](https://film.one/film/vivre-sa-vie.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Port-au-Prince, dimanche 4 janvier* (2015), Writer, Director
- *Si c'est ça la famille* (2004), Director, Writer
- *Jakob the Liar* (1999), Director, Screenplay
- *La rançon du chien* (1996), Writer, Director
- *Les Bœuf-carottes* (1995), series, Director
- *La Haine* (1995), as Art Gallery Owner — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/la-haine.md)
- *Bonjour Tristesse* (1995), Director
- *Drôles d'oiseaux* (1993), Director
- *Chillers* (1990), series, Director
- *Opération Ypsilon* (1987), series, Director
- *L'Énigme blanche* (1985), Script, Director
- *Clémence Aletti* (1985), series, Director, Creator
- *La Guerre des insectes* (1981), series, Director
- *Make Room for Tomorrow* (1979), Director, Writer
- *Médecins de nuit* (1978), series, Director
- *Jeudi 7 avril* (1978), Director
- *The Wall* (1967), Actor
- *Steinberg* (1965), Director
- *Pour le plaisir* (1964), series, Director
- *Vivre Sa Vie* (1962), as Young Man — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/vivre-sa-vie.md)
- *Vasarely* (1960), Director
- *Ligne de vie*, Director

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Grimme-Preis 1969: Grimme-Preis (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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