Flesh of the Orchid (1975)
La Chair de l'orchidée
A mystery of body and soul that drowns in his gaze!
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running away, from two killers.
- Date of release
- 1975-01-29
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (39)
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
- Director
- Patrice Chéreau
Casting
- Charlotte Rampling — Claire
- Bruno Cremer — Louis Delage
- Edwige Feuillère — Madame Bastier-Wagener
- Simone Signoret — Lady Vamos
- Alida Valli — la folle de la gare
- Hans Christian Blech — Gyula Berekian
- François Simon — Joszef Berekian
- Hugues Quester — Marcucci
- Rémy Germain — Arnaud
- Roland Bertin — l'homme d'affaires
- Günter Meisner — Advokat
Interesting facts
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 2
La Chair de l'orchidée is a 1975 film by Patrice Chéreau as his directorial debut, adapted by him and by Jean-Claude Carrière from the 1948 book The Flesh of the Orchid by British writer James Hadley Chase, "a pulp-novel sequel to No Orchids for Miss Blandish" (1939). The film stars Charlotte Rampling, Simone Signoret, Bruno Cremer, Edwige Feuillère and, in a cameo, Alida Valli.
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