Céleste (1970)

7.0/10 90 min Drama

Overview

Georges Cazenave, a " politically committed" French TV reporter leads a good life. Besides having a regular mistress in the person of Hélène, he is a ladies man with "a girl in every port". But this comfortable situation is challenged the day he hires Céleste as his housemaid. A Portuguese immigrant, she soon appears to be a Marxist-Leninist activist, engaged in political groups working against the regime of Salazar, the dictator of Portugal. Geoges and Céleste fall in love with each other, which brings adventure in the reporter's hitherto superficial life, upset by a breakup with Hélène, the interference of the French Secret Service and a touch of terrorism.

Cast

Débora Duarte

Céleste Pereira

Jean Rochefort

Georges Cazenave

Lea Massari

Hélène

Anne-Marie Coffinet

Marie-Jeanne

Philippe Ogouz

Antoine

Gabriel Cattand

Maître Moret

David José

The bearded man

Philippe Dumat

Bonneval

Perrette Pradier

Catherine

Raymond Gérôme

Leader of the French barbouzes

Marc de Géorgi

Alain Floret

Harry-Max

Attendant of the bath-showers

Anne Kerylen

Guy Piérauld

Lita Recio

Marianik Revillon

Sarah

Bernard Tiphaine

Barbouze

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