Molière (1978 film)

For other uses, see Molière (disambiguation).

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
Written by	Ariane Mnouchkine
Produced by	Claude Lelouch
Starring	Philippe Caubère
Cinematography	Bernard Zitzermann
Edited by	Françoise Javet Georges Klotz
Music by	René Clemencic
Distributed by	Les Artistes Associés
Release date	30 August 1978 (1978-08-30)
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