Hecate
Hecate

Hecate

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1982
1h 45m
5.2(10 votes)
Drama
Romance

Overview

Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is what happens to a French diplomat, Julien Rochelle, when he meets the mysterious beauty Clothilde de Watteville. Schmid 's favorite axiom, that love is projection, never had such a thorough airing. Is Clothilde really the wife of a French official now holed up in Siberia? Or is she Hecate, goddess of black magic and devourer of the Arab boys she meets far from the European quarter? Only our projections know for sure; for the rest, she is a "woman looking out into the night." Drawn from a novel by Paul Morand, who based the main character on his wife Helene, Schmid's film achieves an atmosphere of magic in which psychological credibility is not so much absent as irrelevant-a film that distances itself from the drama it invokes, perhaps as the elusive Clothilde turns her back on the madness she provokes.

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TF1 Films Production

Cast & Crew

16 members
Acting

Bernard Giraudeau

Julien Rochelle

Bernard Giraudeau
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Lauren Hutton

Clotilde

Lauren Hutton
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Jean Bouise

le consul de France

Jean Bouise
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Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Massard

Jean-Pierre Kalfon
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Gérard Desarthe

Le colonel de Watteville

Gérard Desarthe
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Juliette Brac

Miss Henry

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Patrick Thursfield

L'Anglais

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Suzanne Thau

La tenancière du bordel

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Costume & Make-Up

Raja Reinking

La fille du bar

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Mustapha Tsouli

Ibrahim

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Teco Celio

Le capitaine Berta

Teco Celio
Production

Rose-Marie Schneider

Unknown Role

Rose-Marie Schneider
Acting

Irene Staub

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Irene Staub
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Karen Schenker-Donovan

Unknown Role

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Liz Panama

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Michel Journot

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