Hecate (1982)

Hécate | France| Switzerland

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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Director

Daniel Schmid

Stars

Bernard Giraudeau
Julien Rochelle

Lauren Hutton
Clotilde

Jean Bouise
le consul de France

Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Massard

Gérard Desarthe
Le colonel de Watteville

Juliette Brac
Miss Henry

Patrick Thursfield
L'Anglais

Suzanne Thau
La tenancière du bordel

Raja Reinking
La fille du bar

Mustapha Tsouli
Ibrahim

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Keywords

based on novel, africa, sex, magic, war, diplomat, european, french, colony, goddess, mysterious, nationalism

Production

TF1 Films Production, Les Productions Audiovisuelles, Télévision Suisse-Romande

Actor

Bernard Giraudeau, Lauren Hutton, Jean Bouise, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Gérard Desarthe, Juliette Brac, Patrick Thursfield, Suzanne Thau, Raja Reinking, Mustapha Tsouli, Teco Celio, Rose-Marie Schneider, Irene Staub, Karen Schenker-Donovan, Liz Panama, Michel Journot

Creators

Raúl Gimenez (Production Design), Aurore Clément (Thanks), Carlos D'Alessio (Music), Roland Thénot (Production Manager), Renato Berta (Director of Photography), Pascal Jardin (Writer), Daniel Schmid (Director), Marcel Hoehn (Producer), Nicole Lubtchansky (Editor), Christian Gasc (Thanks), Pierre Héros (Producer), Pierre Philippe (Thanks), Jean-Luc Wey (Camera Operator), Raja Reinking (Costume Design), Hans-Ulrich Jordi (Producer), Bernard Lorain (Producer), Ronaldo Abreu (Makeup Artist), Amahi Desclozeaux (Thanks)

Alternative titles

Hecate - Die Männerkatze (DE)
Worte kommen meist zu spät (DE)
Hécate, maîtresse de la nuit (FR)
Words usually come too late (GB)
Ekati, i eromeni tis nyhtas (GR)
Ecate (IT)

Release dates

15.11.1983 (US)
09.02.1983 (DE)
21.11.1982 (FR)
22.10.1982 (CH)
01.12.1982 (CH)
21.11.1982 (FR)
01.09.1983 (IT)
27.01.1984 (DE)

Hecate (1982)

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