CÉLESTE (1970)

Not Rated
Céleste
Drama
December 10, 1970
French
1h 30m
France, Italy
Arvo Film
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 & Characters
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
Harry-Max
Attendant of the bath-showers
Marianik Revillon
Sarah
Arlette Thomas
Céleste’s landlady
Bernard Tiphaine
Barbouze
Crew
Michel Gast
Director
Michel Gast
Writer