Céleste (Italian: Un soffio di piacere) is a 1970 French-Italian comedy film directed by Michel Gast and starring Débora Duarte, Jean Rochefort and Lea Massari.Rège p.429Bessy & Chirat p.374 It was shot in Eastmancolor. The film's sets were designed by the art director Raoul Albert.https://en.unifrance.org/movie/4890/celeste
Synopsis Georges Cazenave, is a superficial French television reporter who enjoys the good life and his relationship with his mistress Hélène. All this turns on its head when he hires Céleste, a Portuguese housemaid. He soon discovers that she is secretly a communist activist plotting against the Estado Novo dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar in her native country. The two fall in love, adding chaos to the previously simple life of Georges.
Cast Débora Duarte as Céleste Pereira Jean Rochefort as Georges Cazenave Lea Massari as Hélène Anne-Marie Coffinet as Marie-Jeanne Philippe Ogouz as Antoine Gabriel Cattand as Maître Moret David José as Le barbu Philippe Dumat as Bonneval Perrette Pradier as Catherine Raymond Gérôme as Le chef des barbouzes français Harry-Max as Le préposé des bains-douches Marianik Revillon as Sarah Arlette Thomas as La logeuse de Céleste Bernard Tiphaine as Un barbouze
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Bibliography Bessy, Maurice, Chirat, Raymond & Bernard, André. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films 1966-1970. Pygmalion, 1986. Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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