Delphine Seyrig
Date of birth: 1932-04-10
Place of birth: Beirut, Lebanon
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Beltiane, دلفین سیریگ
Biography
Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig (April 10, 1932 – October 15, 1990) was a Lebanese-born French actress and film director. She became active in the feminist movement in the 1970s along with filmmakers Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, and Ulrike Ottinger. In 1975, Seyrig joined forces with Carole Roussopoulos and Ioana Wieder to form the collective Les Insoumuses (The Resistant Muses) and produced videos that became an emancipatory tool and medium of political activism.
Movie Credits
Stolen Kisses
1968-09-04
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story re
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972-09-15
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but neve
The Day of the Jackal
1973-05-16
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill P
Donkey Skin
1970-12-16
A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
Hedda Gabler
1967-10-24
Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble.
Un mois à la campagne
1966-06-21
1840. The arrival of a young tutor in a wealthy Russian family will stir the hearts of two women. Th
The Black Windmill
1974-05-17
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he ca
Mr. Freedom
1969-01-08
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to Fran
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1976-01-21
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores and takes care of her apartment where she lives wit
Golden Eighties
1986-06-25
Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall
Aloïse
1975-04-02
Aloise creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the ins
Daughters of Darkness
1971-05-28
Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the myster
I Sent a Letter to My Love
1980-04-09
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried
Baxter, Vera Baxter
1977-06-08
In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was dr
Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
1976-06-02
The full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife in 1
Dear Michele
1976-10-01
Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who i
Muriel, or the Time of Return
1963-10-01
In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélèn
Accident
1967-02-09
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in
India Song
1975-06-04
Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in 1930s India, takes many lovers to relieve the
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000-08-01
Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Ma
Say it with Flowers
1974-09-04
The action begins in black and white, like a memory. Klaus is a Nazi military who has just failed an
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012-02-04
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2020-11-30
If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodi
Freak Orlando
1981-11-06
Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman played by the late Magda
Tartuffe
1971-06-12
Orgon and his mother swear by Tartuffe, the self-styled devout who lives off them. The other members
The Garden That Tilts
1975-05-14
Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approach
El vientre de la ballena
1969-01-01
Mexican feature film
La bête dans la jungle
1981-01-01
Voix off
1989-01-01
Two worlds are involved. The internal world, closed, virtually isolated, with just one tenuous, unce
Le Troisième Concerto
1963-10-19
Delphine Seyrig is Catherine Miller, an internationally renowned pianist. Married and mother of a li
Pictures of Europe
1990-04-25
What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures
A Doll's House
1973-08-16
Nora Helmer lives a quiet life with her husband, Torvald, in a small Norwegian town. While he works
Portrait of Actress Delphine Seyrig
1977-01-03
Documentary about French film actress and director Delphine Seyrig featuring an interview filmed in
Faces of Love
1977-11-16
After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can m
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
1984-03-09
The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK O
La Musica
1967-03-03
A husband and wife meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to the provincia
Les variations Dielman
2010-05-13
Found footage using Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman.
Delphine Seyrig
1970-06-01
The Colors of Madness
1987-11-06
This short film about the links between the experience of madness ans pictorial expression, comprise
Duras and Cinema
2014-07-03
Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her
Angry Annie
2022-11-30
Annie becomes pregnant. Since she doesn't want to keep the child, she meets a movement that performs
Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
1989-02-01
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken priso
Grain of Sand
1983-10-25
Delphine Seyrig plays a middle-aged woman coping with an ungovernable present and holding out hopes
J'aime
2007-01-27
The Ambassadors
1977-03-13
Dramatisation of Henry James's novel. Lambert Strether comes to Europe on a difficult and delicate m
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
1975-02-19
A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill.
Letters Home
1986-03-08
A filmed adaptation of Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s play, based on Sylvia Plath’s intense correspondence
In Memory
1987-04-14
One year after the death of Simone de Beauvoir (14 april 1986) Delphine Seyrig pays homage by visiti
Pull My Daisy
1959-11-11
Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the fi
The Last Word
1975-01-01
Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company
De doute et de grâce
1989-01-01
Of Doubt and Grace: A spell-binding reading by Delphine SEYRIG of extracts of Carole NAGGAR's text "
Scum Manifesto
1976-01-01
Delphine Seyrig reads passages from a Valerie Solanas’s SCUM manifesto.
Maso and Miso Go Boating
1976-01-01
The year 1975 is declared “year of the woman”. On this occasion Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giro
Diary of a Suicide
1973-03-22
On a Mediterranean cruise, a young man hired as a tour guide is intrigued by the beauty of a female
Autour de Jeanne Dielman
1975-01-01
During the filming of "Jeanne Dielman" Sami Frey recorded what was happening on the set. A film abou
The Milky Way
1969-02-28
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way
Be Pretty and Shut Up!
1981-03-04
The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter,
Documenteur
1981-10-02
After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh
The Colour of Words
1984-06-12
This afterword to India Song (Duras' celebrated 1975 film) is organized in several parts. It begins
Delphine and Carole
2020-01-14
In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were
Le lys dans la vallée
1970-05-16
Félix de Vandenesse's youthful love for the beautiful, inaccessible Madame de Mortsauf, who devotes
The Discoveries of a Modern Couple
1986-12-24
Black comedy about a couple who become convinced that their best friends are aliens and that the Ear
Spray of the Days
1968-04-21
Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually d
Black Sun
2019-07-07
Underscored by French film legend Delphine Seyrig’s evocative recitation of a Henri Michaux poem, Ma
Last Year at Marienbad
1961-05-25
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have
On the Move
1979-11-22
Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife an
Comédie
1966-01-01
An adaptation of the Beckett play
Seven Women, Seven Sins
1986-04-19
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmak
Cry of the Heart
1974-09-11
Alexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally amputated,
Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig: A Story
2020-03-19
Delphine Seyrig decided to work on a film project about Calamity Jane to reveal Jane’s sensibility a
The Man of Destiny
1981-05-05
One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and soci
Superbia – The Pride
1988-10-13
Pride is the first of the seven deadly sins. The introduction is made through early allegorical form
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966-10-21
In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fash
Le petit Pommier
1981-02-04
Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreate
Inês
1974-11-17
Inês Etienne Romeu was an opponent to the Brazilian's dictatorship. She was kidnapped, tortured and
The Lost Way
1980-01-09
While the Easter holidays are over, a young woman named Cécile and her brother Pierre return to the
Energy of Delusion
2015-01-01
My aim is to create a highly compressed museum of cinema, consisting of some of the most notoriously
The Places of Marguerite Duras
1976-05-03
Her whole childhood, Marguerite Duras spent her time moving. Her house in Neauphle-le-Château is the
Qui donc a rêvé?
1965-12-31
A little girl named Alice dreams about going through the looking-glass and becoming a queen in the m
In Her Own Words
2024-01-23
This visual essay, produced in 2023, builds upon rare radio interviews that Chantal Akerman gave in