Cast: María Casares

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Pierre Brasseur · Pierre Renoir · Arletty

Synopsis It follows a mysterious woman (Arletty) loved by four different men (all based on historical figures): an actor, a criminal, a count, and, most poignantly, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault), in a world teeming with hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans,...

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Marais · María Casares · François Périer · Marie Déa

Synopsis Orphee is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphee's wife, Eurydice, is killed by the Princess' henchmen and Orphee goes after her into the Underworld. Although they have become dangerously entangled, the Princess...

Direction Jorge Semprún

Cast Santiago Carrillo · María Casares · Ian Gibson · Federica Montseny

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Cocteau · Claudine Auger · Charles Aznavour · Lucía Bosé

Synopsis Le Testament d'Orphee, the last film made by Cocteau, is a visual summing up of the poet's own life. In it Cocteau gazes, one after the other, into the multiple mirrors of his loves and his works, re-creating his personal...

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Renée Faure · Gérard Philipe · Lucien Coëdel · Louis Salou

Synopsis Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around. The Countess of San Severina, is but one of the women who love him a la folie, spurring jealous...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Paul Bernard · María Casares · Elina Labourdette · Lucienne Bogaert

Synopsis A society lady engineers a marriage between her lover and a cabaret dancer who is essentially a prostitute.

Direction Goran Paskaljevic

Cast Tom Conti · Miki Manojlovic · María Casares · Zorka Manojlovic

Synopsis Someone Else's America opens in Brooklyn, across the East River from Manhattan, where the skyscrapers loom like a steel-and-concrete promise forever beyond the immigrants' reach. Bayo, from Montenegro, has been in the United States for less than a year, doing...

Direction Alain Resnais · Robert Hessens

Cast María Casares · Jacques Pruvost

Synopsis On April 26 1937 the small Basque town of Guernica was bombed without warning by the German aviation. Two thousand people, all civilians, got killed. Like millions all over the world, Pablo Picasso was shocked and he translated his emotion...

Direction Michel Deville

Cast Miou-Miou · Christian Ruché · Sylvie Laporte · Michel Raskine

Synopsis Constance is asked by her boyfriend to read out loud a novel in which a young woman called Marie decides to become a professional reader. Having placed an advertisement in the paper, Marie is offered work by a curious mix...

Direction Henri Calef

Cast María Casares · Roger Pigaut · Jean Murat · Orane Demazis

Direction Jeanne Labrune

Cast Sami Frey · Patrick Catalifo · André Dussollier · Clémentine Célarié

Synopsis Bullfighting, music, medicine, change, and homoerotic possibilities mix in this study of friendship. Francisco is a bullfighter on his way up, so focused even sex doesn't hold his interest. After a minor road accident, he meets a doctor, Manuel, who...

Direction Elisabeth Kapnist

Cast Albert Camus · María Casares · Francisco Franco · Jean-Paul Sartre

Synopsis Maria Casarès, a theatre actress and Albert Camus, one of the most important modern french writer, keep a long correspondence (more than 900 letters) about their love and the emotions they feel for each other for 15 years.

Direction Georges Franju

Cast María Casares · Marc Cassot · Monique Chaumette · Silvia Monfort

Synopsis Documentary about the National Popular Theater, an important experimental theater room which was under the direction of Jean Vilar. Franju combines the filming of the drama with documentary footage, creating connections and confrontations between the theater and the real world.

Direction André Zwoboda

Cast Georges Marchal · María Casares · Aimé Clariond · Catherine Arley

Synopsis An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town.He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property) and he strongly advises him not to open one of...

Direction Henri Calef

Cast Simone Signoret · María Casares · Jean Marchat · Pierre Dux

Synopsis A world-wide known piano player whose favorite composition is Tchaikovski's Piano Concerto part one has problems :during her concert,she begins to go nuts ,much to the musicians' dismay.They say her father had lost his marbles before he died . A...

Direction Jacques Renard

Cast Miou-Miou · Sandrine Bonnaire · Gérard Klein · Patrick Chesnais

Synopsis A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too. In the...

Direction Julián Esteban

Cast María Casares · Jorge Sanz · Julieta Serrano · Ovidi Montllor

Direction Gianfranco Mingozzi

Cast Florinda Bolkan · María Casares · Claudio Cassinelli · Anthony Higgins

Synopsis Italy 1600: A convent of nuns are invaded by the Tarantula Sect on their annual pilgrimage. The cultists defile the place of worship, orgying in the chapel and desecrating the altar. One nun decides she can't take the religious oppression...