Hecate

Hecate

1982
1h 45m
5.2

5.2/10

10 votes • View on IMDb
Drama Romance

"Words usually come too late"

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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Production Information

Production Companies
Les Productions Audiovisuelles TSR TF1 Films Production
Production Countries
France Switzerland
Spoken Languages
French

Keywords

diplomat based on novel or book magic africa nationalism colony goddess european mysterious

Quick Facts

Original Title Hécate
Release Date October 22, 1982
Status Released
Language FR
IMDb ID tt0082510

Cast

Bernard Giraudeau
Bernard Giraudeau

Julien Rochelle

Lauren Hutton
Lauren Hutton

Clotilde

Jean Bouise
Jean Bouise

le consul de France

Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Massard

Gérard Desarthe
Gérard Desarthe

Le colonel de Watteville

Juliette Brac
Juliette Brac

Miss Henry

Patrick Thursfield
Patrick Thursfield

L'Anglais

Suzanne Thau
Suzanne Thau

La tenancière du bordel

Raja Reinking
Raja Reinking

La fille du bar

Mustapha Tsouli
Mustapha Tsouli

Ibrahim

Teco Celio
Teco Celio

Le capitaine Berta

Rose-Marie Schneider
Rose-Marie Schneider

Key Crew

Pierre Héros
Producer
Marcel Hoehn
Producer
Hans-Ulrich Jordi
Producer
Daniel Schmid
Director
Bernard Lorain
Producer
Pascal Jardin
Writer
Daniel Schmid
Writer