La Chair de l'orchidée

La Chair de l'orchidée
Directed byPatrice Chéreau
Written byJames Hadley Chase (novel)
Jean-Claude Carrière
Patrice Chéreau
Produced byVincent Malle
StarringCharlotte Rampling
Bruno Cremer
Edwige Feuillère
Simone Signoret
Alida Valli
Hans Christian Blech
CinematographyPierre Lhomme
Edited byPierre Gillette
Music byFiorenzo Carpi
Distributed byFox-Lira
Release date
  • 29 January 1975 (1975-01-29)
Running time
110 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
West Germany
LanguageFrench

La Chair de l'orchidée (The Flesh of the Orchid) is a 1975 film by Patrice Chéreau as his directorial debut, adapted by him and by Jean-Claude Carrière from the 1948 book The Flesh of the Orchid by British writer James Hadley Chase, "a pulp-novel sequel to No Orchids for Miss Blandish" (1939). The film stars Charlotte Rampling, Simone Signoret, Bruno Cremer, Edwige Feuillère and, in a cameo, Alida Valli.