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Maria Casarès

Maria Casarès

November 21, 1922 (November 22, 1996)
Fr. 1995. Dramatic comedy by Goran Paskaljevic with Tom Conti, Miki Manojlovic, Maria Casarès.
Runtime: 92 min.

Knights of the Round Table

V.O.: Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde
Fr. 1990. Drama by Denis Llorca with Denis Llorca, Alain Cuny, Valérie Durin. The story of the Knights of the Round Table and their quest for the Holy Grail.
Runtime: 116 min.

The Reader

V.O.: La Lectrice
Fr. 1988. Mores comedy by Michel Deville with Miou-Miou, Patrick Chesnais, Maria Casarès. A young woman who offers her services as an at-home reader meets clients with diverse tastes.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1987. Psychological drama by Jeanne Labrune with Sami Frey, Patrick Catalifo, Clémentine Célarié. A doctor who experienced the horrors of the Spanish war has a disturbing influence on a young bullfighter.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1985. War drama by Jacques Renard with Miou-Miou, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maria Casarès. During the German Occupation, a worker's wife and a barber's teenage daughter join the French Resistance.
Runtime: 91 min.

Flavia, the Heretic

V.O.: Flavia, la monaca musulmana
It. 1974. Mores drama by Gianfranco Mingozzi with Florinda Bolkan, Maria Casarès, Anthony Corlan. In the early fifteenth century, a nun forced into her vocation rebels against her state.
Runtime: 101 min.

Testament of Orpheus

V.O.: Le Testament d'Orphée
Fr. 1959. Poetic drama by Jean Cocteau with Jean Cocteau, Édouard Dermithe, Maria Casarès. A poet evokes the myths through which he portrayed himself.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 1950. Psychological drama by Henri Calef with Maria Casarès, Simone Signoret, Jacques Berthier. Unable to accept that her former lover has fallen in love with her half-sister, a young woman makes terrible revelations to break their budding love.
Runtime: 92 min.

Orpheus

V.O.: Orphée
Fr. 1949. Poetic drama by Jean Cocteau with Jean Marais, Maria Casarès, François Périer. A poet has an amazing adventure after being carried into the afterlife by Death.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1948. Psychological drama by Henri Calef with Maria Casarès, Roger Pigaut, Jean Brochart. A greedy woman bewitches all the men in her town.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 88 min.

The Charterhouse of Parme

V.O.: La Chartreuse de Parme
Fr. 1947. Melodrama by Christian-Jaque with Gérard Philipe, Maria Casarès, Renée Faure. Sentenced to twenty years in a fortress, a young aristocrat escapes with the help of his jailer's daughter.
Runtime: 166 min.
Fr. 1947. Drama by Pierre de Hérain with Pierre Brasseur, Maria Casarès, Claude Larue. A young woman sequesters her sister, until the day she kills her and goes mad.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1946. Melodrama by André Cayatte with Maria Casarès, Lucien Coëdel, Paul Bernard. Wrongly accused of murder, an escaped convict who made his fortune in Canada returns to France to expose the real culprits and restore his reputation.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1945. Dramatic comedy by André Cayatte with Lucien Coëdel, Maria Casarès, Jean Tissier. Wrongly accused of a crime that he did not commit, an industrialist is sentenced to hard labour.
Runtime: 100 min.

Children of Paradise

V.O.: Les Enfants du Paradis
Fr. 1945. Melodrama by Marcel Carné with Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur. In Paris in 1827, a mime falls madly in love with a young woman who is courted by many men.
Runtime: 183 min.

Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne

V.O.: Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
Fr. 1944. Psychological drama by Robert Bresson with Maria Casarès, Paul Bernard, Élina Labourdette. Abandoned by her lover, a young woman decides to take revenge by introducing him to one of her friends, an ex-dancer and occasional prostitute.
Runtime: 83 min.

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