Olivier Hussenot

Olivier Hussenot

Born: September 10, 1913
Died: August 25, 1978
in Paris, France

Movies for Olivier Hussenot...

The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
Title: The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
Character: Mamamouchi (Voice)
Released: October 24, 1979
Type: Movie
The Fabulous Adventures of the legendary Baron Munchausen is a French animated feature from Jean Image of 1978, inspired by the adventures of Baron Munchausen. Baron Munchausen is wont to bring his friends to tell them about his imaginary exploits.
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Title: Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré
Character: Jovelin
Released: December 18, 1976
Type: TV
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As Long as One Is Intoxicated
Title: As Long as One Is Intoxicated
Character: le vieux prêtre
Released: October 1, 1974
Type: Movie
The tormented loves of the young Ottavio, first for the countess Gamiani and then for the writer Georges Sand.
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A Cloud in the Teeth
Title: A Cloud in the Teeth
Character: Le petit vieux
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
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Antoine and Sebastian
Title: Antoine and Sebastian
Released: January 16, 1974
Type: Movie
Antoine has raised Sébastien, the son of a friend who was killed in a plane crash. Sébastien is doing his military service and Antoine would like him to marry Nathalie, the girl he grew up with. But Nathalie is in love with an American, and the day Sébastien has a leave, she leaves with her lover.
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The Vertical Smile
Title: The Vertical Smile
Character: Doux Donnie
Released: March 19, 1973
Type: Movie
A kaleidoscope of images from history populate this skillfully animated French feature. The story concerns a history professor whose ideas about human history cause him distress. Amid a flurry of newsreel-type images, Joan of Arc's trial is shown. Another theme which emerges is of two ages (in the far past and far future) in which naked humans fight one another with animalistic aggression.
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Not Dumb, the Bird
Title: Not Dumb, the Bird
Character: Me Weidman
Released: November 15, 1972
Type: Movie
An old lady is far from suspecting everything that is going on behind her back, in particular what her servants are up to.
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Them
Title: Them
Released: November 18, 1970
Type: Movie
An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his friend's death on an art critic and a shady art dealer. He is able to take out his frustrations on the pretentious critic at a party. When an elderly man moves into the boarding house, he brings a machine he invented that can make people realize their subconscious dreams...
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Le chien qui a vu Dieu
Title: Le chien qui a vu Dieu
Character: Don Tabia
Released: March 10, 1970
Type: Movie
In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly. One day, to benefit from an inheritance, he has to distribute fifty kilos of bread a day to the poor for five years. At the moment of distribution, a dog comes along and takes a loaf of bread in its mouth, to take to an old hermit whom the villagers are convinced "has seen God".
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Asterix and Cleopatra
Title: Asterix and Cleopatra
Character: Voix additionnelles (voice)
Released: December 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Popular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have made a bet, with Caesar wagering the project cannot be completed in a few weeks time. With the help of a magic potion, Asterix comes to the rescue of the Queen of the Nile as Caesar and an angry architect plot against them.
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A Flea In Her Ear
Title: A Flea In Her Ear
Character: Max's Uncle Louis
Released: November 27, 1968
Type: Movie
Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.
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Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 2ème partie
Title: Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 2ème partie
Character: Joseph
Released: January 13, 1968
Type: Movie
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Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 1ère partie
Title: Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 1ère partie
Character: Joseph
Released: January 6, 1968
Type: Movie
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The Sunday of Life
Title: The Sunday of Life
Character: Paul Brelugat
Released: January 13, 1967
Type: Movie
After five years in the army, Valentin Brû marry a haberdasher. They move to Paris, where Valentin sells frames, while his wife becomes fortune teller. One day, Valentin replaces her, and predict a terrible event which will happen.
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The Mad Dog
Title: The Mad Dog
Character: Charlie
Released: September 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in the Paris by Night, including deserted factory, Les Halles market and an empty theatre.
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Un mois à la campagne
Title: Un mois à la campagne
Character: Dr. Schpieguelski
Released: June 21, 1966
Type: Movie
1840. The arrival of a young tutor in a wealthy Russian family will stir the hearts of two women. The mother, Natalia Petrovna, and her 17-year-old ward, Vera, fall in love with the frustrated boy... Adaptation of Ivan Tourgueniev's most famous play, starring Delphine Seyrig as Natalia Petrovna.
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Le coup de grâce
Title: Le coup de grâce
Character: Germain
Released: May 8, 1966
Type: Movie
During WWII, Bruno gave away many people to the Gestapo. Now, 25 years after, with a new face given by plastic surgery, he is back and becomes friend with his victims' relatives and friends...
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Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Title: Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Character: L'arracheur de dents
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.
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Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
Title: Gunmen Of The Rio Grande
Character: Judge
Released: November 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Wyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain and to save a mine owner from robbery.
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Hard Boiled Ones
Title: Hard Boiled Ones
Character: Le directeur du théâtre
Released: June 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
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À fleur de peau
Title: À fleur de peau
Released: November 14, 1962
Type: Movie
When Françoise introduced her fiancé to her parents, she had no idea that, during this family weekend, drama would enter this sumptuous estate, set up by her father for his second wife, the troubling Irène; so troubling, in fact, that she immediately set about conquering her daughter-in-law's fiancé... This doesn't faze her husband, Paul Brémont, the famous builder of Télébremont television sets, who is busy with his business and, above all, with the charms of his secretary. But it does seem to worry the house gardener, who is more than a little attached to his seductive boss (which makes Rose, the cook, sick with jealousy).
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Les trois chapeaux claques
Title: Les trois chapeaux claques
Character: Don Rosario
Released: June 26, 1962
Type: Movie
For 7 years Don Dionisio has been engaged to Marguerite, a young girl from a good family. Every year he comes from the distant village where he is a civil servant to spend a day with his beloved. But that evening is the last time he moves in with Don Rosario, the innkeeper: the next day he marries Marguerite. But the arrival of a troupe of music hall artists who settle in the neighboring rooms and the meeting with the pretty Paula, will disturb his projects ...
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Give Me Ten Desperate Men
Title: Give Me Ten Desperate Men
Released: June 17, 1962
Type: Movie
This is a story that is less a developed tale than a thumbnail sketch about imaginary events on a kibbutz in Palestine. Set in the period just before Israel gained its status as an independent nation, the drama shows the occupants of the kibbutz engaged in typical hard work. They have to find a source of water, construct their buildings, and do all the chores needed to stay alive, and these pressures as well as the times in which they live cause tensions to rise. The mix of kibbutzim covers a wide range of personality types, from the deeply religious to the ingrained soldier.
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The Vendetta
Title: The Vendetta
Character: Mr Lauriston
Released: April 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Arbella is a charming village in Corsica. It's such a pleasant place to live that Monsieur Lauriston has decided to spend his old age there with his wife Marthe. Encouraged by Giuseppe, the owner of the Napoleon bar, he is promoted to mayor. This brings him the wrath of Captain Bartoli, owner of the Café Bonaparte, a self-styled pirate and navigator who has long aspired to this honorable position. Further complications arise when Lauriston's nephew romances Antonia, the daughter of Amoretti, the last bandit of honor in the area and the town's main tourist attraction.
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In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!
Title: In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!
Character: Le commissaire Guillaume
Released: October 25, 1961
Type: Movie
Paul fishes out of the water the body of his greatest enemy. To avoid accusations that he is a killer, taking steps that will clear his good name.
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Croesus
Title: Croesus
Character: Un policier
Released: September 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is visited by a lonely widow, Fine, who longs to be his wife. One day, Jules comes across an unexploded bomb lying on the ground in open countryside. After a few foolhardy attempts to set the bomb off, Jules makes a surprising discovery. It is filled with thousands of bank notes…
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Bloit
Released: July 13, 1960
Type: Movie
In France, during the Second World War, journalist Paul Roy is a member of the Resistance, while his colleague and friend Jacques Médina is a collaborator. But it's thanks to Jacques that Paul is able to remain free, as he shelters him in his home after a roundup. The two friends co-wrote various Nazi propaganda articles, which appeared under Jacques' byline. The situation becomes complicated when Paul becomes the lover of Jacques' wife.
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The Wretches
Title: The Wretches
Character: Arthur Martin
Released: May 8, 1960
Type: Movie
Meant to be a psychological study of a dysfunctional couple and an equally unbalanced maid, this slow-paced, murky melodrama stars Michele Morgan and Robert Hossein as Thelma and Jess, two Americans who move into a down-at-the-heels Paris neighborhood. The couple is still suffering from the loss of their only son in an automobile accident that happened some time in the distant past. Thelma tends to drown her sorrows in alcohol, while Jess is introspected and morose. After they hire a maid to help out with the housework, she falls for the taciturn Jess. Her interest seems to be only a simple attraction, yet appearances, as it turns out, are deceiving.
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The Lovers of Tomorrow
Title: The Lovers of Tomorrow
Character: l’agent
Released: August 26, 1959
Type: Movie
A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her husband to prevent him from the turning the man in to the police.
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The Lovers of Tomorrow
Title: The Lovers of Tomorrow
Released: August 26, 1959
Type: Movie
A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her husband to prevent him from the turning the man in to the police.
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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Nina
Title: Nina
Character: Un inspecteur
Released: January 16, 1959
Type: Movie
A husband plans to shoot the man having an affair with his wife, but both come to realise their desire to escape the tyrannical woman in their lives.
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The Roots of Heaven
Title: The Roots of Heaven
Character: The Baron
Released: October 15, 1958
Type: Movie
In Fort Lamy, French Equitorial Africa, idealist Morel launches a one-man campaign to preserve the African elephant from extinction, which he sees as the last remaining "roots of Heaven." At first, he finds only support from Minna, hostess of the town's only night club, who is in love with him, and a derelict ex-British Army Major, Forsythe. His crusade gains momentum and he is soon surrounded by an odd assortment of characters: Cy Sedgewick, an American TV commentator who becomes impressed and rallies world-wide support; a U.S. photographer, Abe Fields, who is sent to do a picture story on Morel and stays on to follow his ideals; Saint Denis, a government aide ordered to stop Morel; Orsini, a professional ivory hunter whose vested interests aren't the same as Morel's; and Waitari, leader of a Pan-African movement who follows Morel only for the personal good it will do his own campaign.
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Maigret Sets a Trap
Title: Maigret Sets a Trap
Character: Lagrume
Released: January 29, 1958
Type: Movie
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set him a trap.
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Lovers of Paris
Title: Lovers of Paris
Character: Joseph Josserand
Released: October 18, 1957
Type: Movie
Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.
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The Best Part
Title: The Best Part
Character: Colombin
Released: December 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteriorates but he refuses to follow the doctor's orders as well as the advice of Micheline, a young nurse who has fallen in love with him. However, driven by the evolution of his illness, Philippe finally makes up his mind to go down to the valley for a treatment. On the very day of his departure though, a young Arab worker gets killed in a rock crusher...
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Lord Rogue
Title: Lord Rogue
Character: Edward, Seymour's valet
Released: December 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Paris 1847. A British Lord, Lord Henry Seymour, is famous for his eccentricities. The aristocracy disapproves of his frequenting of the dregs of society and his support of destitute people. On the other hand, his good looks attract beautiful women like Virginie, the star of the Prado, and Anna Risomonti, a fair Italian opera singer. As for Henry, he has designs on young but willful Chantereine, a young singer-actress. But Don Juan soon turns into Romeo and true love unites the couple. Unfortunately, Henry's life is thrown awry by fellow aristocrats, among whom Harel, his sworn enemy, who reveals the secret of his birth.
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Headlines of Destruction
Title: Headlines of Destruction
Released: November 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriously maintained by her lover, Jacques Rupert, editor-in-chief of a major newspaper, rejects him. Shortly afterwards, Rupert discovers Alice dead, murdered. Fearing charges, he asks one of his reporters, Barney Morgan, to direct suspicion to Michel. But Michel's lawyer shows Barney that the husband is innocent.
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The Grand Manoeuvre
Title: The Grand Manoeuvre
Character: Le préfet
Released: October 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
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Les hommes en blanc
Title: Les hommes en blanc
Character: Thésée
Released: May 9, 1955
Type: Movie
Jean Nerac completes his medical studies, sure of a successful career, but less sure of his attempts with fellow student Marianne, who refuses to accept him. Nerac leaves for the Auvergne. An old doctor will soon die, but replacing him will be difficult, as one of Jean's colleagues has failed. However, with patience, skill, modesty and friendship, Jean Nerac overcame the mistrust of his patients. He settled in these austere mountains, and Marianne, convinced of the young man's worth, helped him with her presence.
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Title: Une enquête de l'inspecteur Grégoire
Character: Inspecteur Grégoire
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: TV
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Obsession
Title: Obsession
Character: Louis Bernardin
Released: October 28, 1954
Type: Movie
Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is injured. The two get into a fight and the following day Alexandre is discovered dead. Hélène suspects her husband is responsible for the murder.
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After You, Duchess
Title: After You, Duchess
Released: May 20, 1954
Type: Movie
When she married her snobbish lawyer husband a woman hid her family's modest background from him. Her father, who is in fact a plumber dresses up as a duchess in order to fool him.
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Mademoiselle Nitouche
Title: Mademoiselle Nitouche
Character: Another Marshal
Released: April 21, 1954
Type: Movie
Celestin works as an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls' incessant practical jokes. By night, however, he is the celebrated composer of popular operas -- and the romantic vis-à-vis of a celebrated stage star. When schoolgirl Denise stumbles onto Celestin's secret, she threatens to tell all -- but only if Celestin refuses to escort her to the opening night of his latest opera. As a result, Denise falls in love with a handsome young soldier, while Celestin is accidentally shipped off to an army camp. A series of silly coincidences brings happiness to all concerned by fade-out time.
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Rhine Virgin
Title: Rhine Virgin
Character: le capitaine Meister, patron de la péniche
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she's remarried and has taken the head of his shipping company. She and her husband will do anything to get rid of Jacques and keep his company.
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Fatal Affair
Title: Fatal Affair
Character: Doctor Dufour
Released: April 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he has casual love affairs. But Leone he meets in Bruxelles wants to become his one and only mistress.
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Les Dents longues
Title: Les Dents longues
Character: André Maurienne
Released: March 15, 1953
Type: Movie
A young, talented and ambitious journalist, Louis heads off to try his luck in Paris. He's spotted by Walter, editor-in-chief for a major daily newspaper, who takes to him and furthers his career. What he doesn't realise is that Louis is ready to betray anyone to achieve his ends...
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Crimson Curtain
Title: Crimson Curtain
Character: Deputy Inspector Gobinet
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
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Desperate Decision
Title: Desperate Decision
Character: The poster paster
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Ireland, 1922. In the midst of a national uprising, Catherine, a young orphan employed in household chores, goes in search of her brother whom she has heard in a dream calling for help.
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Judgement of God
Title: Judgement of God
Character: Gaspard Bernauer
Released: August 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become the husband of a woman with pimples,flat feet and no breast. Nevertheless, he has to obey his authoritarian father, Duke Ernest, and accompanied by faithful Count Törring, he mounts his steed and sets out for Würtemberg. Stopping in Augsburg, he falls in love with the daughter of a local barber-surgeon, pure and beautiful Agnès Bernauer. The couple is soon secretly married and both take refuge at the castle of Margravine Josepha, Albert's aunt, waiting for Ernest's consent. Unluckily Albert's father will not accept his son's union with a commoner and Albert, supported by Josepha and an army of common people, declares war on the Duke. They seem about to be victorious when Brother Enrique, a monk formerly in the Holy Inquisition, finds a way to reverse the situation: accusing Agnès of witchcraft...
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The Case Against X
Title: The Case Against X
Released: June 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A wealthy financier is murdered in his desirable mansion.Two lieutenants, a tough guy and a rookie, investigate.
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Fan-Fan the Tulip
Title: Fan-Fan the Tulip
Character: Tranche-Montagne
Released: March 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage because a gypsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gypsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction.
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Rendezvous in Grenada
Title: Rendezvous in Grenada
Character: Chauffeur
Released: November 21, 1951
Type: Movie
The love of a singer and his mistress suffers a setback.
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Trip to America
Title: Trip to America
Character: Soalhat, le jardinier
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple here travel to the US to see for themselves the prosperity they have heard about.
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Utopia
Title: Utopia
Character: Un chasseur de fortune
Released: October 17, 1951
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together.
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Amazing Monsieur Fabre
Title: Amazing Monsieur Fabre
Character: Le censeur d'Avignon
Released: September 26, 1951
Type: Movie
It centres on the life of the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre and his total devotion to studying insect behavior, travelling from Avignon to Paris, from Paris to his death in Sérignan. He is honoured by the French president Raymond Poincaré and his patience, obstinacy and knowledge are also recognised by Napoleon III, the publisher Charles Delagrave and the philosopher John Stuart Mill. They reach their climax in his book, Souvenirs entomologiques.
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The Beautiful Image
Title: The Beautiful Image
Character: The commissioner
Released: May 30, 1951
Type: Movie
One day, Raoul Cérusier realizes with amazement that his face has changed. With the exception of an old uncle, no one, not even his wife, recognizes him. From an ordinary, rather ugly man, he has become a charming young man on whom the prettiest girls turn, including his wife whom he seduces. Fortunately, he regains his old face in time and Madame Cérusier, losing a lover, finds her husband again.
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Dear Caroline
Title: Dear Caroline
Character: Un commissaire
Released: February 28, 1951
Type: Movie
France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a military career waits for him. Caroline marries then a politician but the French Revolution bursts and Caroline has to run away to escape the guillotine. By running away she meets Gaston again who decides to help her.
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Paris Incident
Title: Paris Incident
Character: The police commissioner
Released: November 2, 1950
Type: Movie
Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second night of work. He is given three telegrams, one of which is for the president of the Camber of Deputies. Excited, Antoine runs his bicycle into a truck and loses the telegrams. What follows is an amusing and agonizing search for the missing messages. He is assisted first by a glum, wise-beyond-her-years little girl, Amelie; an off-duty police superintendent, a schoolmaster, a cookie-tin maker and a fireman. The harmonica musical theme is played by Flore Falvey.
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Secret Document: Vienna
Title: Secret Document: Vienna
Character: Marcel Berthier, agent 24
Released: August 8, 1950
Type: Movie
During the Great War, in Austria, an officer was shot on the orders of his superior von Pennwitz. Out of revenge, his widow becomes a spy in the pay of France, preoccupied with removing the person responsible for her husband's death. In charge of a mission to von Pennwitz, she suddenly finds herself face to face with her husband, who is still alive. It was a ruse of war to deceive the enemy. It is only at the armistice that the couple will be able to live in peace.
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Miquette
Title: Miquette
Character: Frédé (uncredited)
Released: April 14, 1950
Type: Movie
A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and an old ham actor.
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Thirst of Men
Title: Thirst of Men
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
The establishment of a French family who came to cultivate vines in Algeria.
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Marie of the Port
Title: Marie of the Port
Character: un oncle de Marie et Odile
Released: February 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish strong-head who just lost her father in a small fishing village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
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Strange Tales
Title: Strange Tales
Character: Truffault
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Title: The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Released: October 5, 1949
Type: Movie
Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very much alive. Taking refuge to her castle, she appealed to the journalist Rouletabille to protect her.
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Les Dieux du dimanche
Title: Les Dieux du dimanche
Character: Félix
Released: February 9, 1949
Type: Movie
A soccer enthusiast like his father, Martin Lambert is the (gifted) goalkeeper of the local team. He falls in love with Jeanette and soon marries her. Alongside a happy marital life, Martin becomes a successful professional. Which proves a mixed blessing since fame makes him vain and haughty and his marriage gets seriously affected. But the Second World War breaks out and Martin is drafted. Taken prisoner a few months later, he is sent to a camp. When he is released, he tries resume his career but his wounds hurt too much and he has to give in. But not soccer: he will now proudly train young shoots.