Molière (1978 film)

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

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

External links

Cultural depictions of Molière

1978 films

Italian drama films

1970s French-language films

1970s biographical drama films

Films set in the 17th century

Films directed by Ariane Mnouchkine

French biographical drama films

Biographical films about dramatists and playwrights

1978 drama films

1970s French films

1970s Italian films