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Céleste (1980 film)

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Céleste
Directed byPercy Adlon
Written byPercy Adlon
Based onCéleste Albaret's memoir Monsieur Proust[1]
Produced byEleonore Adlon
Starring
CinematographyJürgen Martin
Edited byClara Fabry  [de]
Music byCésar Franck, played by the Bartholdy Quartet
Production
companies
Distributed byFilmverlag der Autoren
Release date
  • October 1980 (1980-10)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Céleste is a 1980 West German film by Percy Adlon about the life of the French writer Marcel Proust as he lay in his bed from 1912 to 1922; the story is told through the eyes of his real life maid, Céleste Albaret. She waited decades before writing her own book about the experience[2] which was adapted for the screen by Percy Adlon.

Andrew Sarris called the film "one of the most profound tributes one art form has ever paid to another."[3]

Cast

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  • Eva Mattes as Céleste Albaret
  • Jürgen Arndt as Monsieur Proust
  • Norbert Wartha as Odilon Albaret
  • Wolf Euba as Robert Proust

References

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  1. ^ Monsieur Proust: souvenirs; recueillis par Georges Belmont. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1973
  2. ^ Emmanuelle Giuliani, "Céleste Albaret, la muse de Proust", La Croix, 26 July 2007
  3. ^ Andrew Sarris, "Footnotes on Proust, Grace, Reed, and Connors Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine", The Village Voice, vol. 27, no. 51, September 28, 1982
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