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