Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel

Auguste Rodin

Louise-Athanaise Claudel

Paul Claudel

Eugène Blot

Jessie Lipscomb

Claude Debussy

Rose Beuret

Limet

Morhardt

Louise Claudel

Victoire

Louis-Prosper Claudel

Robert

Le docteur Michaux

Le pianiste

La maîtresse pension de famille

Schwob

Marcel

La concierge

La femme accroupie

P'tit Louis

Ferdinand de Massary

Le photographe

Giganti

La cantatrice

(as Jean-Pierre Pora di 'Dannilsen')

L'huissier

Madame Morhardt

Auguste Beuret

Adèle

Alain Cuny who plays Camille and Paul Claudel's father actually met Paul Claudel in 1944, the poet and dramatist personally chose him to play Pierre de Craon in his play: The Tidings Brought to Mary.

A major scene in the movie depicts the announcement of the death of Victor Hugo. In The Story of Adele H (1975), Isabelle Adjani played Adèle Hugo, Victor Hugo's daughter who, like Camille Claudel, suffered from schizophrenia.

Auguste Rodin: The human body is a world that moves. It's life!

Camille Claudel: [to Auguste Rodin] You stole it all! My youth, my work! Everything!

Camille Claudel: My little Paul, you came to see me in May... and I made you promise not to neglect me so terribly. Madhouses are made to inflict suffering. It can't be helped... especially if you never see anyone. They try to force me to sculpt here. They don't succeed, so they make trouble for me. Don't forget, Paul, your sister is in prison with madwomen. Mama wrote the doctor... that I mean to harm you. That I detest you and am out to hurt you. It's not true. I wish she would take me to Villeneuve with her. Do you think I enjoy spending months, years like this without any news or hope? Where does such ferocity come from? How did they manage to change you so? I'd really like to know. You might as well send me to Siberia. Did you take care of my things? Are they in Villeneuve? Be careful they don't fall into Rodin's hands. He's so afraid I might come back. That's why he's keeping me here, isn't it, Paul? I would like to go home and close the door tightly. I don't know if I'll be able to realize this dream to be home. Oh, God, I wish I were in Villeneuve. Your sister in exile.