Molière | |
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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 |
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Running time | 260 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | $11.6 million[1] |
Molière is a 1978 French drama film directed by Ariane Mnouchkine. It was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
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.