''Charlotte'' or ''The Murdered Young Girl'' (french: La jeune fille assassinée) is a 1974

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directed by

Roger Vadim Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (; 26 January 1928 – 11 February 2000) was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor. His best-known works are visually lavish films with erotic qualities, su ...

. It stars

Sirpa Lane Sirpa Lane, born Sirpa Salo (1952–1999), was a Finnish people, Finnish actress known for her work in B-movies of the 1970s, primarily erotic and exploitation films. Lane was discovered by British photographer and film-maker David Hamilton (photo ...

Michel Duchaussoy Michel René Jacques Duchaussoy (29 November 1938 – 13 March 2012) was a French film actor, who appeared in more than 130 films between 1962 and 2012. At first a theatre actor, he worked for many years in the Comédie Française, where he ...

, and

Mathieu Carrière Mathieu Carrière (; born 2 August 1950) is a German actor. Life Carrière grew up in Berlin and Lübeck; he attended the Jesuit boarding school in Vannes, France, a school which had previously been attended by the director of Carrière's firs ...

. The film is about a

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Cast

as Charlotte Marley *

as Serge *

as Eric von Schellenberg *

as Georges Viguier *

Alexandre Astruc Alexandre Astruc (; 13 July 1923 – 19 May 2016) was a French film critic and film director. Biography Before becoming a film director he was a journalist, novelist and film critic. His contribution to the auteur theory centers on his notion o ...

as Guy, the editor *

Anne-Marie Deschodt Anne-Marie Deschodt, married name de Rougemont, (18 August 1938 – 21 September 2014, Marsillargues) was a French actress and writer. She was writer Éric Deschodt's sister.

as Eliane * Élisabeth Wiener as Elisabeth *

Thérèse Liotard Thérèse Liotard (born 6 May 1949 in Lille, Nord, France) is a French actress best known for her role in the 1990 film ''My Father's Glory (La Gloire de mon père, de Marcel Pagnol)''. She is known on British television for her appearance in th ...

as Louise * Sabine Glaser as Agnès *

Anthony Steffen Anthony Steffen, born Antonio Luiz de Teffé von Hoonholtz (July 21, 1930 – June 4, 2004), was an Italian-Brazilian character actor, screenwriter and film producer. Steffen achieved fame as a leading man in Spaghetti Western features. He was als ...

as Prince Sforza

Release

''Charlotte'' was released in Paris on 27 November 1974. The film had 497,542 admissions in France.

Reception

Although it was a commercial success, it was disapproved of by many critics. ''New York Magazine'' called it an "arrogant piece of vacuous pornography", and added "if anyone had any doubts about Vadim's utter worthlessness this irritatingly pseudointellectual garbage should allay them".

References

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