Molière (1978 film)

Molière
Molière
Directed by	Ariane Mnouchkine
Written by	Ariane Mnouchkine
Produced by	Claude Lelouch
Starring	Philippe Caubère
Cinematography	Bernard Zitzermann
Edited by	Françoise Javet; Georges Klotz
Music by	René Clemencic
Release date	30 August 1978;
Running time	260 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$11.6 million

Molière is a 1978 French drama film directed by Ariane Mnouchkine. It was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

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

References

^ JP. "Molière (1978) (1978)- JPBox-Office". www.jpbox-office.com.
^ "Festival de Cannes: Molière". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-20.

External links

Molière at IMDb

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[1] JP. "Molière (1978) (1978)- JPBox-Office". www.jpbox-office.com.

[festival-cannes.com-2] "Festival de Cannes: Molière". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-20.

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