La Cérémonie [1995 film] (1995)

by Claude Chabrol, Caroline Eliacheff (Writer)

Other authors: Jacqueline Bisset (Actor), Sandrine Bonnaire (Actor), Jean-Pierre Cassel (Actor), Isabelle Huppert (Actor), Virginie Ledoyen (Actor) — 1 more, Ruth Rendell (Original book)

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Catherine hires the illiterate Sophie to work as her maid at her remote home in the French countryside. But Sophie soon falls under the influence of the mysterious Jeanne and suddenly the stage is set for murder, violence and betrayal.

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Catherine, a rich woman of Brittany, engage Sophie as maid for her great house. Sophie is illiterate but nobody know it, and she has shame of it. She become friend with Jeanne, the post office employee, a woman not very sane, jealous about Catherine and her husband

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Claude Chabrol	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Eliacheff, Caroline	Writer	main author	all editions	confirmed
Bisset, Jacqueline	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bonnaire, Sandrine	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cassel, Jean-Pierre	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Huppert, Isabelle	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Ledoyen, Virginie	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Rendell, Ruth	Original book	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Catherine hires the illiterate Sophie to work as her maid at her remote home in the French countryside. But Sophie soon falls under the influence of the mysterious Jeanne and suddenly the stage is set for murder, violence and betrayal.

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