Molière (1978 film)
Molière is a 1978 French drama film directed by Ariane Mnouchkine. It was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
| Molière | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ariane Mnouchkine |
| Produced by | Claude Lelouch |
| Written by | Ariane Mnouchkine |
| Starring | Philippe Caubère |
| Music by | René Clemencic |
| Cinematography | Bernard Zitzermann |
| Edited by | Françoise Javet Georges Klotz |
Release date |
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Running time | 260 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $11.6 million[1] |
Plot
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.
Cast
- Philippe Caubère as Molière / The Death
- Frédéric Ladonne as Molière, child
- Jonathan Sutton as La Grange
- Julien Maurel as The friend of Molière
- Philippe Cointepas as The comrades Molière
- Maurice Chevit as The priest of the school
- Odile Cointepas as The mother
- Armand Delcampe as The father
- Jean Dasté as The grandfather
- Joséphine Derenne as Madeleine Béjart
- Brigitte Catillon as Armande Béjart
- Mario Gonzáles as Scaramouche
- Albert Delpy as Nicolas Boileau
- Guy-Claude François as The bird-man
- Michel Hart as Les dévots
- Alfred Simon as Les dévots
- Marie-Françoise Audollent
- Jean Brard
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References
- JP. "Molière (1978) (1978)- JPBox-Office". www.jpbox-office.com.
- "Festival de Cannes: Molière". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-20.
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