---
title: 'The Heavenly Bodies (1973)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Gilles Carle'
released: '1973-01-01'
countries:
  - 'Canada'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-heavenly-bodies-1973'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191049/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Heavenly Bodies (1973)

1973 · Canada


## Synopsis

The Heavenly Bodies is a Canadian-French comedy film, directed and co-written by Gilles Carle and released in 1973. The film stars Donald Pilon as Desmond, a pimp in Quebec in 1938 who moves to a rural mining town with a group of prostitutes to open a brothel in a decrepit old hotel, amid the early warning signs about the approaching outbreak of World War II.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Gilles Carle](https://cinepixo.com/people/gilles-carle)
- **Screenplay:** [Gilles Carle](https://cinepixo.com/people/gilles-carle), [Arthur Lamothe](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-lamothe)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Philippe Sarde](https://cinepixo.com/people/philippe-sarde)
- **Producer:** [Mag Bodard](https://cinepixo.com/people/mag-bodard), [Pierre Lamy](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-lamy)
- **Editor:** [Renée Lichtig](https://cinepixo.com/people/renee-lichtig)

## Cast

- [Carole Laure](https://cinepixo.com/people/carole-laure)
- [Claude Maher](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-maher)
- [Jacques Dufilho](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-dufilho)
- [Donald Pilon](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-pilon)
- [Gilles Rochette](https://cinepixo.com/people/gilles-rochette)
- [Marcel Giguère](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcel-giguere)
- [Micheline Lanctôt](https://cinepixo.com/people/micheline-lanctot)

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