📜 Overview:
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.
🌏 Languages Available:
French
📆 Date Released:
1990-12-19
⌚ Running Time:
125 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
4.8
Beloved Cast
Pierre-François Lacenaire
Daniel Auteuil
Allard
Jean Poiret
Jacques Arago
Jacques Weber
Lacenaire's father
François Périer
Lacenaire's mother
Geneviève Casile
Alphonse Damoiseau
Jean Davy
Marmignat
Jacques Duby
Vigouroux
Paul Le Person
Hermine
Maïwenn
Pertuizet
Jacques Sereys
Canler
Rufus
Professor Tonnelier
Gérard Desarthe
Baton
Jean-Damien Barbin
Princess Ida
Marie-Armelle Deguy
The abbot of Lusignan
Samuel Labarthe
The president of the court
Jean-Pierre Miquel
Poulaillon
Jean-Paul Muel
Avril
Patrick Pineau
François
Aurélien Recoing
Doctor Brianchon
Yves Dangerfield
Lebel
Jean-Michel Ribes
Ida's husband
Daniel Mesguich
The superior
François-Régis Bastide
General Counsel
Claude Makovski
Lambolley
Maurice Bernart
The big
Michel Vocoret
May father
Gérald Calderon
The first mogul
Henri Lanoë
The prison priest
Jean-Luc Douin
Degroot
Bertrand Van Effenterre
The head of the prison
Henri Colpi
