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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

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

External links

• Molière at IMDb

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