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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.

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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.

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).

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.

Aleksey Trotsyuk (born November 30, 1978, in Brest) Graduated from BSU with a degree in Technology of Mechanical Engineering. He played for the BSU KVN team (1999 and 2001 Major League Champion). Co-founder, Executive Producer, and a member of the Board of Directors of Yellow, Black and White - one of Russia's most prominent Film and TV studios. Executive Producer on the following TV projects: The Cleaned Up, Offside, The Kitchen, Hotel Eleon, Traffic Light, The Last of the Magikyans, Forever Young, One for All, as well as the successful feature films, The Kitchen in Paris, SuperFamily, Without Borders, Have Fun, Vasya!, The Kitchen. Mortal Combat, The Last Warrior, Superfamily: Better Than Avengers, and Son of a Rich - Russia's biggest box office hit to date. Executive Producer of SUPER TV channel projects. Co-founder of the subscription based video service START, a new online cinema catering to a global audience and a new state-of-the-art studio which creates and distributes exclusive Russian-language films and series.

Aliaksandr Tsymbaliuk was born on 27 February 1989 in Pinsk, Brest Region, Belarus. Aliaksandr is a cinematographer and director, known for Koka (2024), Sasha (2018) and Night in the Tram (2020).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Henri Queffélec was born on 29 January 1910 in Brest, Finistère, France. He was a writer, known for God Needs Men (1950), Provinces (1968) and François Malgorn, séminariste ou celui qui n'était pas appelé (1972). He died on 13 January 1992 in Paris, France.

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).

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.

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).

Yann Le Masson was born on 27 June 1930 in Brest, Finistère, France. He was a cinematographer and director, known for J'ai huit ans (1962), The Mafia Wants Blood (1970) and Grand Prix (1966). He died on 20 January 2012 in Avignon, Vaucluse, France.

Jean-Patrick Nourricier was born on 17 December 1981 in Brest, Finistère, France. Jean-Patrick is a production manager, known for Tell No One (2006), A Good Year (2006) and Priceless (2006).

Francois Bahaud was born on 5 March 1932 in Brest, Brittany, France. Francois is known for Bitter Sugar (1996). Francois died on 6 December 2020 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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).