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