Release Date

19 Dec, 1990

Runtime

02:05: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Lacenaire

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Actors

Daniel Auteuil

Jean Poiret

Jacques Weber

François Périer

Geneviève Casile

Jean Davy

Jacques Duby

Paul Le Person

Maïwenn

Jacques Sereys

Rufus

Gérard Desarthe

Jean-Damien Barbin

Marie-Armelle Deguy

Samuel Labarthe

Jean-Pierre Miquel

Jean-Paul Muel

Patrick Pineau

Aurélien Recoing

Yves Dangerfield

Jean-Michel Ribes

Crew

Francis Girod

Georges Conchon

Francis Girod

Ariel Zeitoun

Laurent Petitgirard

Geneviève Winding

Bruno de Keyzer