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Where Is Madame Catherine?

2003 film by Marc Recha

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ7993296 ↗
Source-derived summary

Where Is Madame Catherine? (Catalan: Les mans buides, Spanish: Las manos vacías, French: Les mains vides) is a 2003 French-Spanish comedy film directed by Marc Recha. It was entered into the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast

Dominique Marcas - Madame Catherine

Jérémie Lippmann - Axel

Olivier Gourmet - Eric

Eduardo Noriega - Gerard

Jeanne Favre - Lola

Sébastien Viala - Philippe

Rajko Nikolic - Monsieur Georges

Eulalia Ramón - Maria

Mireille Perrier - Sophie

Mireia Ros - Anna

Pierre Berriau - Yann

Luis Hostalot - Jean-Claude

Francesc Tollet - Octave

See also

List of French films of 2003

List of Spanish films of 2003

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Where Is Madame Catherine?

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“Where Is Madame Catherine?” enters the record as 2003 film by Marc Recha. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Where, Madame and Catherine can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003-09-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Where, Madame and Catherine.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7993296. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Where Is Madame Catherine?” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.