María Casares

Born: 1922-11-22

María Casares was a Spanish actress and one of the most distinguished stars of the French stage. She was usually credited in France as Maria Casarès.


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Children of Paradise

as Nathalie
Released: 1945-03-15

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans,...

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Testament of Orpheus

as The Princess
Released: 1960-02-18

Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by...

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Orpheus

as Death
Released: 1950-09-29

A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

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Flavia the Heretic

as Sister Agatha
Released: 1974-06-14

Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical...

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Les Dames du bois de Boulogne

as Hélène
Released: 1945-09-21

A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a...

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La Lectrice

as la veuve de Général
Released: 1988-08-17

Constance is a young lady who likes to read – and who likes to dream while reading - to imagine,...

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The Charterhouse of Parma

as la duchesse Gina de San Severina
Released: 1948-02-21

This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of...

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Blanche and Marie

as Louise
Released: 1985-04-03

A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her...

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Les Deux mémoires

as Self
Released: 1974-02-27

The two memories

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The Lives of Albert Camus

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2020-01-22

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in...

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The Revenge of Roger

as Julia de Terrenoire
Released: 1946-10-23

Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There,...

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Bagarres

as Carmelle
Released: 1948-11-05

A proud femme fatale who works at a mountainous farm property manages, after being prodded by...

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Roger the Disgrace

as uncredited
Released: 1946-03-13

Roger Laroque, an honest industrialist, is the victim of a criminal machination by Julia de...

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The Seventh Door

as Léila
Released: 1947-09-27

An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He...

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Someone Else's America

as Alonsova majka
Released: 1995-09-09

This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who...

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Amour de vivre

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2010-05-01

An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story

as Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: 1989-11-16

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in...

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Guernica

as uncredited
Released: 1949-12-01

Alain Resnais & Robert Hessen use the famous Picasso mural "Guernica" in combination with...

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María Casares, a muller que viviu mil vidas

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2023-03-10

A portrait of the Spanish actress María Casares (1922-96).

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Sand and Blood

as Dolores
Released: 1988-05-26

Bullfighting, music, medicine, change, and homoerotic possibilities mix in this study of...

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The Man Who Returns from Afar

as uncredited
Released: 1950-04-07

A man, after a fight, believes he has killed his cousin, and hides the body. The dead man had...

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Shadow and Light

as Caroline Bessier
Released: 1951-06-27

A few years ago, Isabelle Leritz, a famous pianist, suffered a fit of madness, in the middle of...

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Le Théâtre National Populaire

as uncredited
Released: 1956-06-08

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Maria Casarès and Albert Camus, you, my life

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2022-11-25

Maria Casarès, a theatre actress and Albert Camus, one of the most important modern french...

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Les chevaliers de la table ronde

as Viviane
Released: 1990-11-07

The Quest of the Grail from the birth of Merlin, to the foundation of the Round Table, the...

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Love Around the House

as Thérèse
Released: 1947-08-27

In an isolated house, in Brittany, live two sisters around whom gravitate a whole series of...

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Le Grand Échiquier

as Self
First aired: 1972-01-12

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Apostrophes

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-10

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and...

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Discorama

as Self
First aired: 1959-02-04

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Les Nuits révolutionnaires

as « la Murène », la maquerelle
First aired: 1989-10-05

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