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Studio/Distributor
Sony Pictures Classics

Director
Laurent Tirard

Screenwriter(s)
Laurent Tirard, Grégoire Vigneron

Cast
Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Edouard Baer, Ludivine Sagnier, Fanny Valette

Release Date: July 27, 2007

Release: Limited

Synopsis: 1644, Paris, and 22-year-old Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Molière, is not yet the writer that history recognizes as the father and true master of comic satire, author of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, and a dramatist to rank alongside Shakespeare and Sophocles. Far from it. He is, in fact, a failed actor.

His Illustrious Theatre Troupe, founded the previous year, is bankrupt. Hounded by creditors, Molière is thrown into jail, released, then swiftly imprisoned again. When the jailors finally let him go, he disappears. The combined efforts of historians have unearthed no trace of him before his reappearance, several months later, when his troupe begins touring the provinces - a tour that will last for thirteen years, and culminate in Molière's triumphant return to Paris in 1658.

Genre: Comedy

MPAA Rating: Not Rated

Offical Site: Molière

Movie Poster: Allposters

DVD/VHS: Amazon