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The Elegant Criminal (1990)

ALL 12/19/1990 (fr) Drama 125 Min
  • Release
    12/19/1990
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    52%
  • Original title
    Lacenaire
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Francis Girod

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Ariel Zeitoun

    Producer



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  1. Daniel Auteuil

    Pierre-François Lacenaire

  2. Jean Poiret

    Allard

  3. Jacques Weber

    Jacques Arago

  4. François Périer

    Lacenaire's father

  5. Geneviève Casile

    Lacenaire's mother

  6. Jean Davy

    Alphonse Damoiseau

  7. Jacques Duby

    Marmignat

  8. Paul Le Person

    Vigouroux

  9. Maïwenn

    Hermine

  10. Jacques Sereys

    Pertuizet

  11. Rufus

    Canler

  12. Gérard Desarthe

    Professor Tonnelier

  13. Jean-Damien Barbin

    Baton

  14. Marie-Armelle Deguy

    Princess Ida

  15. Samuel Labarthe

    The abbot of Lusignan

  16. Jean-Pierre Miquel

    The president of the court

  17. Jean-Paul Muel

    Poulaillon

  18. Patrick Pineau

    Avril

  19. Aurélien Recoing

    François

  20. Yves Dangerfield

    Doctor Brianchon

  21. Jean-Michel Ribes

    Lebel

  22. Daniel Mesguich

    Ida's husband

  23. François-Régis Bastide

    The superior

  24. Claude Makovski

    General Counsel

  25. Maurice Bernart

    Lambolley

  26. Michel Vocoret

    The big

  27. Gérald Calderon

    May father

  28. Henri Lanoë

    The first mogul

  29. Jean-Luc Douin

    The prison priest

  30. Bertrand Van Effenterre

    Degroot

  31. Henri Colpi

    The head of the prison

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Casts : 31 , Crews : 7

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The Elegant Criminal (1990) 125 Min

ALL 12/19/1990 (fr)
Drama
  • Release 12/19/1990
  • Production
  • Original title Lacenaire
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Francis Girod

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Geneviève Winding

    Editor

  4. Ariel Zeitoun

    Producer



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