Gisèle Casadesus
June 14, 1914 · 112 years old
Gisèle Casadesus (14 June 1914 – 24 September 2017) was a French actress, who appeared in numerous theatre and film productions. She was an honorary member of the Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Grand-Croix…
Known For
6 titles
Sarah's Key
In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942.
Ultimate Heist
The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France.
The Children of the Marshland
A chronicle of a group of friends in rural France between the wars. Garris and Riton live in the marshlands along the banks of the Loire river. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives al...
Love at the Top
A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution.
Marie Octobre
A dinner: One woman and nine men. There is a traitor among them. 10 years after the Liberation of France, Marie Hélène Dumoulin, also known as Marie-Octobre gathers her former comrades of Resistance for one reception . She seeks t...
Vautrin the Thief
Michel Simon vehicle and Balzac adaptation: An escaped convict, putting on priest's garb, manoeuvres his way into 19th century French society and pressures his young protege to marry for money, not love.