MOLIÈRE

A film by Ariane Mnouchkine

With 120 actors, 600 participants, 1300 costumes, 220 sets and after two years of work, Ariane Mnouchkine’s iconic movie tells in four hours the fascinating story of Molière, and of his century.

From his childhood to his death, we follow Molière and his travelling companions, in their joy, misery and glory throughout a savage yet refined XVIIth century France, sharing their first theatrical adventures, their successes and failures.

This familiar and spectacular saga where the devout clash with the libertine, peasants with courtesans, is about the life of an honest man who exhausts himself in an unceasing struggle to practice his art in a century filled with repression and violent hypocrisy.

with
Philippe Caubère, Joséphine Derenne, Brigitte Catillon, Claude Merlin, Jean-Claude Bourbault, Françoise Jamet, Marie-Françoise Audollent, Louba Guertchikoff, Serge Coursan, Daïna Lavarenne, Lucia Bensasson, Nicole Félix, Rémy Charpentier, Norbert Journo, Clémence Massart, Jonathan Sutton, Armand Delcampe, Odile Cointepas, Jean Dasté, Jean-Claude Penchenat, Roger Planchon

Bonus:
- Interviews with Ariane Mnouchkine (2004 and 2021) and Philippe Caubère (2022)
- Making-of Molière, filmed at La Cartoucherie (archives INA 1978)
- Director’s commentary

Picture format: PAL 16:9
Sound format: Mono
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English (all) + French, Italian, Spanish (film)
Running time: 244 mins (film) + 131 (bonus)
No. of DVDs: 3 (DVD 9)

Also available on Blu-ray (BAC803)