Who is Albert Dehousse?

Answer 1

the main character in a French film called "a self made hero"

Albert Dehousse is a wannabe hero and liar-supreme who after WWII fabricates a heroic background as a French Resistance fighter.

great film with Matthieu Kassovitz as Albert Dehousse

Answer 2

Albert Dehousse is schooled in deception at his mother's breast. From her he learns that his father was a hero in the first war: Doesn't she have his veteran's pension to prove it? From nasty local urchins Albert learns the more likely story, that his father was a drunk who died of liver failure, and his mother made the whole thing up.

Albert himself is an idle daydreamer, a blank slate on which various versions of a life story can be sketched. He reads romantic novels, and then tells a girl he is a novelist. She believes him and marries him, but her family so mistrusts him that it is only after the war that he discovers they were in the Resistance, and sheltered Allied pilots who were shot down.

Albert spends the war as a salesman, having evaded the draft. From his father-in-law he learns that to make a sale, you must determine what a customer wants to believe, and confirm it. Fleeing his first marriage after the liberation, he is penniless in Paris when he meets the Captain (Albert Dupontel), a heroic Resistance parachutist who assumed so many fake identities during the war that he perhaps lost touch with himself and identified only with his deceptions. He bluntly counsels Albert to invent a new past.

This process comes easily to Albert because he has no present. Like Chance, the hero of ``Being There,'' he is such a cipher that other people see what they want. Albert studies papers on the Resistance, memorizes lists, even inserts himself into old newsreel footage. Some of his skills he learns during a period as private secretary to the enigmatic Mr. Jo, who survived the war by supplying both the Nazis and the Resistance with what they wanted. Albert, indeed, has a gift for finding those who can tutor him in deception: He even learns about the artifices of love from a prostitute.

``A Self-Made Hero'' is not an angry expose, but a bemused, cynical examination of human weakness. Not a week goes past without another story of an ambassador who invents wartime heroism, an executive who awards himself fictitious degrees, a government official who borrows someone else's childhood trauma and calls it his own. I myself have told stories so often they seem real to me, and can no longer be sure whether my friend McHugh really slapped King Constantine on the back in that hotel bar in Rome. All children tell you with great solemnity about adventures that never happened. Some children don't stop when they grow up.

Answer 3

Albert dehousse is a character from a French film made in 1996 called " A Self Made Hero"
Here is just one site that will tell you more.




http://www.metropoleparis.com/1996/60610016/movie.html?media=print

Answer 4

I dunno...
A self made man?

No wait...
JF Deniau
... could be a hero...Un héros très discret

Answer 5

mister and Miss's dehousse son i should think

Answer 6

never heard of him

Answer 7

SORRY NEVER HEARD OF HIM