Céleste (1980 film)

Céleste
Directed by	Percy Adlon
Written by	Percy Adlon
Based on	Céleste Albaret's memoir Monsieur Proust[1]
Produced by	Eleonore Adlon
Starring	Eva Mattes Jürgen Arndt Norbert Wartha Wolf Euba
Cinematography	Jürgen Martin
Edited by	Clara Fabry  [de]
Music by	César Franck, played by the Bartholdy Quartet
Production companies	pelemele Film Bayerischer Rundfunk
Distributed by	Filmverlag der Autoren
Release date	October 1980 (1980-10)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

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

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

References

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

External links

• Céleste at IMDb
• Céleste at filmportal.de
• Céleste Archived 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine at percyadlon.com