
Hécate is a 1982 French-Swiss drama film directed by Daniel Schmid. It is based on the 1954 novel Hecate and Her Dogs by Paul Morand. It was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival.
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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Hécate is a 1982 French-Swiss drama film directed by Daniel Schmid. It is based on the 1954 novel Hecate and Her Dogs by Paul Morand. It was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival.
==Cast== Bernard Giraudeau as Julien Rochelle Lauren Hutton as Clothilde de Watteville Jean Bouise as Vaudable, consul de France Jean-Pierre Kalfon as Massard Gérard Desarthe as Le colonel de Watteville Juliette Brac as Miss Henry Patrick Thursfield as L'Anglais Suzanne Thau as La tenancière du bordel Raja Reinking as La fille du bar Mustapha Tsouli as Ibrahim Teco Celio as Le capitaine Berta René Marc as Le ministre Ernst Stiefel as Le capitaine russe
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