Hecate

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Bernard Giraudeau

Julien Rochelle

Age : 63 | Popularity : 7%

Lauren Hutton

Clotilde

Age : 80 | Popularity : 23%

Jean Bouise

le consul de France

Age : 60 | Popularity : 4%

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Massard

Age : 85 | Popularity : 5%

Gérard Desarthe

Le colonel de Watteville

Age : 79 | Popularity : 3%

Juliette Brac

Miss Henry

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Patrick Thursfield

L'Anglais

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Suzanne Thau

La tenancière du bordel

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Art	Production Design	Raúl Gimenez
Crew	Thanks	Raúl Gimenez Aurore Clément Christian Gasc Pierre Philippe Amahi Desclozeaux
Sound	Music	Carlos D'Alessio
Production	Production Manager	Roland Thénot Bernard Lorain
	Producer	Marcel Hoehn Pierre Héros Hans-Ulrich Jordi Bernard Lorain
Camera	Director of Photography	Renato Berta
	Camera Operator	Jean-Luc Wey
Writing	Writer	Pascal Jardin Daniel Schmid
Directing	Director	Daniel Schmid
Editing	Editor	Nicole Lubtchansky
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Raja Reinking
	Makeup Artist	Ronaldo Abreu
Department	Role	Name

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