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The Elegant Criminal

12/19/1990

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2hrs 5min

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Drama

STORY

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Daniel Auteuil
  • Jean Poiret
  • Jacques Weber
  • François Périer
  • Geneviève Casile

    Director

  • Francis Girod

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • France

LANGUAGES

  • French

Cast

Daniel Auteuil

Pierre-François Lacenaire

Jean Poiret

Allard

Jacques Weber

Jacques Arago

François Périer

Lacenaire's father

Geneviève Casile

Lacenaire's mother

Jean Davy

Alphonse Damoiseau

Jacques Duby

Marmignat

Paul Le Person

Vigouroux

Maïwenn

Hermine

Jacques Sereys

Pertuizet

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