Catherine Sellers

Catherine Sellers

Acting
1926-10-11
Paris, France

Known For & Full Filmography9 Titles

#1Le Grand Échiquier

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Self

8.0 / 10
TalkNews

Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.

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#2The Idiot

Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes as Nastasya Filippovna

8.8 / 10
Drama

Prince Myshkin is a good man, yet his goodness borders on naivety—or even idiocy. After spending his youth in a Swiss sanatorium being treated for epilepsy and autism, he returns to Russia to enter social circles riddled with hypocrisy and greed. One emerges from the experience dazed, as if waking from a troubled dream.

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#3Stavisky...

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m as Natalya

5.9 / 10
CrimeDramaHistory

Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent assist small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French politics. But when his great scam involving millions is exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.

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#4The Idiot

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Nastasya Filippovna

8.8 / 10
Drama

Prince Myshkin is a good man, yet his goodness borders on naivety—or even idiocy. After spending his youth in a Swiss sanatorium being treated for epilepsy and autism, he returns to Russia to enter social circles riddled with hypocrisy and greed. One emerges from the experience dazed, as if waking from a troubled dream.

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#5Les Compagnons d'Eleusis

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Emmanuelle

8.0 / 10
Action & AdventureMystery

A mysterious organization calling itself "The Companions of Eleusis" is dumping large quantities of gold onto the precious metals market, causing panic in financial circles. A young journalist and his girlfriend decide to investigate the matter...

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#6Woman of the Ganges

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m as Woman / Traveler's wife

7.3 / 10
DramaRomance

A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case...

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#7Destroy, She Said

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as Elisabeth Alione

6.9 / 10
DramaFantasyThriller

In a secluded hotel circumscribed by a dense forest Max and Alissa Thor meet Stein and Elisabeth. Max, a professor of future history and an aspiring author, is immediately attracted to the brooding wife of industrialist Bernard Alione, Elisabeth, who is recovering from a miscarriage. Stein, a German Jew and potential writer, is infatuated by Alissa, Max's young wife and former student. During their sojourn the guests' identities gradually meld.

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#8Jaune, Le Soleil

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Sabana

5.2 / 10
MysteryDrama

The whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces and their enemy "the Jew" are gathered. A female character establishes the dialogue between these individuals and comments on the ideology of each; Until the final scene where everyone seems to rally to a common idea.

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#9The Lives of Albert Camus

Movie - 2020, 2h 15m as Self (archive footage)

8.0 / 10
DocumentaryHistory

Albert Camus died at 46 years old on January 4, 1960, two years after his Nobel Prize in literature. Author of “L'Etranger”, one of the most widely read novels in the world, philosopher of the absurd and of revolt, resistant, journalist, playwright, Albert Camus had an extraordinary destiny. Child of the poor districts of Algiers, tuberculosis patient, orphan of father, son of an illiterate and deaf mother, he tore himself away from his condition thanks to his teacher. French from Algeria, he never ceased to fight for equality with the Arabs and the Kabyle, while fearing the Independence of the FLN. Founded on restored and colorized archives, and first-hand accounts, this documentary attempts to paint the portrait of Camus as he was.

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